noun
- Plural of gimel; the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Usage: Used in religious, linguistic, and academic contexts when discussing Hebrew script or language.
Examples
- The Hebrew alphabet begins with aleph, bet, and gimel.
- Students learning biblical Hebrew must memorize the gimels and other letters.
- The word gimels appears frequently in discussions of Semitic linguistics.
- In the Torah, gimels are written with specific calligraphic rules.