Vav

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For the town of this name in Sudan, see Waw.

Phoenician	Hebrew	Arabic
	ו	و

Vav or waw is the sixth letter of the Phoenician, Hebrew, and Arabic (in abjad order) alphabets. It is the twenty-seventh in modern Arabic order. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek digamma (Ϝ) and upsilon (Υ), which in turn gave rise to the Latin F, V, and Y; V later developed into U and W.

Vav has the numerical value six in enumerations (even in Arabic).

In gematria, Vaw represents the number six. Its script is a vertical line and resembles a person standing.

External link

• The Mystical Significance of the Hebrew Letters: Vav (http://www.inner.org/hebleter/vav.htm)

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fr:Vav (lettre)

VAV is also the name of a student-run art gallery at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

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