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Tav: Hebrew letter forms and values

Identify Tav ת, compare standard, ordinal and reduced-letter values, and check תורה in its cited Hebrew source.

Ordinary Tav

Published 13 October 2026 · Our editorial approach

An ordinary Tav can be the last letter of a word

Tav identity: alphabet position 22
Form	Character	Unicode code point	Unicode 17.0 name
Ordinary Tav	ת	`U+05EA`	HEBREW LETTER TAV

Tav / Taw; Sav in an Ashkenazi reading without dagesh. Reading cue: t in Modern Hebrew; some traditions distinguish Tav without dagesh.

Tav is ת, the last of the twenty-two basic alphabet letters. It has no separate final form. In a word ending with Tav, such as בית, the same base form is used; the term final letter must not be confused with the five special sofit shapes.

The alphabet reference distinguishes Tav and Sav in its Ashkenazi chart, and notes a t reading in Modern Hebrew with or without dagesh. Record the reading tradition you are learning instead of treating one introductory sound cue as every community’s pronunciation.

One letter, three explicit values

Tav in Mazalogy’s three methods
Standard	Ordinal	Reduced letters
400	22	4

Tav’s standard value is 400, its ordinal value 22 and its reduced-letter value 4. In תורה, it therefore makes the largest standard contribution. The English cue Torah and the source’s rendering law do not enter the calculation; the four supplied Hebrew letters do.

תורה: law / Torah, in this passage

Pointed source form: תּוֹרָה · reading cue: torah. Deuteronomy 33:4 · Mechon Mamre.

The verse attributes the instruction to Moses. The arithmetic example uses the exact written word and does not claim that its total settles the passage’s religious meaning.

Each actual letter in reading order; pronunciation marks contribute no values
Reading position	Written letter	Base letter	Standard	Ordinal	Reduced letters
1	ת	ת	400	22	4
2	ו	ו	6	6	6
3	ר	ר	200	20	2
4	ה	ה	5	5	5
Word total			611	53	17

Standard: 400 + 6 + 200 + 5 = 611 · Ordinal: 22 + 6 + 20 + 5 = 53 · Reduced letters: 4 + 6 + 2 + 5 = 17

Its group in the Gra version of Sefer Yetzirah

Tav ת 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.