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Dalet: Hebrew letter forms and values

Identify Dalet ד, compare standard, ordinal and reduced-letter values, and check דשא in its cited Hebrew source.

Ordinary Dalet

Published 13 October 2026 · Our editorial approach

Dalet and Resh are different inputs

Dalet identity: alphabet position 4
Form	Character	Unicode code point	Unicode 17.0 name
Ordinary Dalet	ד	`U+05D3`	HEBREW LETTER DALET

Dalet / Daleth. Reading cue: d.

Compare ד and ר in the printed source you are reading. Their corners can look similar in a small image, but Unicode encodes Dalet as U+05D3 and Resh as U+05E8. A shape comparison is a copying aid; it should not become a rule that every typeface draws the corner identically.

The example דשא begins with Dalet, then Shin and Aleph. Its final Aleph is an ordinary letter at the end of the word. The presence of a last letter does not imply that the word contains one of the five special final forms.

One letter, three explicit values

Dalet in Mazalogy’s three methods
Standard	Ordinal	Reduced letters
4	4	4

Replacing Dalet with Resh would add 196 to a standard sum and 16 to an ordinal sum, while reducing this letter’s small contribution from 4 to 2. That large discrepancy can come from one copying error. Check the character before looking for an interpretation of the total.

דשא: grass

Pointed source form: דֶּשֶׁא · reading cue: deshe. Genesis 1:11 · Mechon Mamre.

Genesis uses the word in the account of vegetation. Retain its Aleph even though an English transliteration such as deshe does not display a separate Latin consonant for it.

Each actual letter in reading order; pronunciation marks contribute no values
Reading position	Written letter	Base letter	Standard	Ordinal	Reduced letters
1	ד	ד	4	4	4
2	ש	ש	300	21	3
3	א	א	1	1	1
Word total			305	26	8

Standard: 4 + 300 + 1 = 305 · Ordinal: 4 + 21 + 1 = 26 · Reduced letters: 4 + 3 + 1 = 8

Its group in the Gra version of Sefer Yetzirah

Dalet ד is among the seven doubles listed in Gra 4:1: בגדכפרת. Keep this textual classification distinct from the alphabet position and the arithmetic columns above.

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Sources, dates and conventions

Prepared by Mazalogy with AI assistance. Characters, source-word spellings and calculation rules were checked against the sources and the calculator on 13 October 2026. Reading cues introduce the cited chart; pronunciation varies by community. Source attribution does not imply outside review or endorsement.

English reference edition. Numerical examples retain final forms and actual vowel letters while ignoring pronunciation marks. Final forms keep base-letter values in all three methods. Reduced letters are added without reducing the completed word total again.