What is "teth"

n. The ninth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

n. the 9th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Teth, also written as or Tet, is the ninth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Ṭēt , Hebrew Ṭēt , Aramaic Ṭēth , Syriac Ṭēṯ ܛ, and Arabic . It is 16th in modern Arabic order. The Persian Ța is pronounced as a hard "t" sound and is the 19th letter in the modern Persian alphabet. The Phoenician letter also gave rise to the Greek theta , originally an aspirated voiceless alveolar stop but now used for the voiceless dental fricative.

The sound value of Teth is , one of the Semitic emphatic consonants.