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Qoph or Qop is the nineteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Qōp 12px, Hebrew Qof , Aramaic Qop 10 px, Syriac Qōp̄ (unicode:ܩ), and Arabic (in abjadi order). Its sound value is an emphatic or . In Hebrew gematria, it has the numerical value of 100. The origin of ''qoph'' is uncertain. It is usually suggested to have originally depicted either a sewing needle, specifically the eye of a needle (the Hebrew means "hole"), or the back of a head and neck (''qāf'' in Arabic meant "nape").〔 Travers Wood, Henry Craven Ord Lanchester, ''A Hebrew Grammar'', 1913, p. 7. A. B. Davidson, ''Hebrew Primer and Grammar'', 2000, (p. 4 ). The meaning is doubtful. "Eye of a needle" has been suggested, and also "knot" Harvard Studies in Classical Philology vol. 45.〕 According to an older suggestion, it may also have been a picture of a monkey and its tail.〔 Isaac Taylor, ''History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1'', 2003: "The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character ''Q'' being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ... Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot'.〕 ==Hebrew Qof== The ''Oxford Hebrew-English Dictionary'' gives the letter Qoph a transliteration value of ' or '; and, when word-final, it may be transliterated as '. The normal English spellings of Biblical names containing this letter may represent it as C or K, e.g. ''Cain'' for Hebrew ''Qayin'', or ''Kenan'' for ''Qenan'' (Genesis 4:1, 5:9). Hebrew spelling: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Qoph」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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