Bible Discussion Thread

I have a question ,does any one on this site know anything about the ancient hebrew alphabet ,a friend of mine told me that in the ancient hebrew the letter w was the sixth letter of the alphabet ,if this is true it would put a very powerfull slant on Revelation ch 13 ,anyone know anything about this ? If its true or not ? Thanks .

Hi Sacha.

I don't know a thing about ancient Hebrew, but I looked this up for you

The letter Vav is the sixth letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Through the ancient Phoenician language, the letter Vav actually became the modern letter "F" used in the English and Latin alphabets.

Vav is the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Looks like a tent peg.

If you Googled "Hebrew alphabet" there's a Wikopedia article that shows the appropriate European equivalent and there's no W. There are, however 2 V sounding characters, one of which is Vav and Vav does have a W equivalence in some respects, for whatever that may mean.

Thanks Skip and S Spencer for your efforts on my behalf ,i did know that v was the 6th letter because of psalm 119 but my friend was saying something about v and w being interchangable but i didnt quite get what he was saying ,thanks anyway ,i appreciate you both .