Talk:Dalet

Dalet/Daleth

If you have comments or issues about the differences between the "Dalet" and "Daleth" versions, please centralize your opinions about them at Talk:Bet (letter) for the present time. Thank you. IZAK 08:42, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Names of God in Judaism

In section Significance, we have a piped link "Names of God in Judaism" to "Name of God". However we have an article Names of God in Judaism. Would that be a better target? It was a bit of a WP:SURPRISE to me. Si Trew (talk) 09:23, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Dalet/ dhalet, and more

It seems confusing to me to say in the article that the pronunciation of the Hebrew letter ד varies with the dagesh. Some of the other pages talking about Hebrew pronunciation and alphabet contradict this one by saying it's always just /d/ and never /ð/. Off the top of my head, I the the /ð/ version was used in biblical Hebrew, and probably swims around in a few accents today, but it's just odd that there's not a consensus between pages.

This leads to a more important issue which is that there's not even one reference for this page. Most of the previous paragraph is literally just my opinion, which isn't what Wikipedia is really for, but right now this page is at the same level. I sort of wonder about the use or scope of these Semitic abjad pages in general because there are a surprising number of them with little or no references, or with long sections with no references. To me it makes more sense to put lot of this information in more expanded letter-by-letter sections of the "Hebrew Alphabet" and "Arabic Alphabet" articles. Those articles are pretty long already with a lot of tables that do a pretty good job of summarizing what in these abjad pages, but they might be a bit more organized as well if they followed (in part) a letter-by-letter approach. Guest#98.232.181.96 (talk) 16:47, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Order of introduction

Why is the order not in order of oldest to newest? For example, it starts with Arabic when the first was pheonician, and then next it should be Hebrew, Aramaic etc. in order of age. 2A02:6B67:EA24:BD00:2F36:45F0:9CB9:D79C (talk) 17:34, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Added a meaning of the prefix in Hebrew

It isn't really a modern prefix, but I've only seen it used in one phrase, "דאבא שאול" which means "The father of Shaul," though I couldn't find a translation in English, so I used my own knowledge of Hebrew through the Oral Torah, taught via a Rav in good faith, and for scholars this is what it means, thus I implanted it into the article. Ashkenatzi (talk) 18:38, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

This is what's called original research on Wikipedia: Reporting in an article what you've seen yourself, implicitly applying your own interpretation of it. You cited the source where you saw it, but you didn't cite a source that verified what you said about it. The reality is different:

One would think that [Rashi's] works would be ubiquitous for the English reading audience, but English translations, outside of his commentary of the Torah, are almost non-existent.

This forces curious researchers such as myself to look at texts in the original language, which in this case is a complex mixture of classical Hebrew, Rabbinic Aramaic and at a lesser rate, old French.

What you're looking at is a mishmash of Hebrew and Aramaic, because Rashi was commenting on material from Aramaic texts. There are several words with the Aramaic genitive prefix ד in the passage you referenced. Largoplazo (talk) 03:52, 5 March 2026 (UTC)