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Tet: Hebrew letter forms and values

Identify Tet ט, compare standard, ordinal and reduced-letter values, and check טוב in its cited Hebrew source.

Ordinary Tet

Published 13 October 2026 · Our editorial approach

Tet and Tav are distinct even when a reading sounds alike

Tet identity: alphabet position 9
Form	Character	Unicode code point	Unicode 17.0 name
Ordinary Tet	ט	`U+05D8`	HEBREW LETTER TET

Tet / Teth. Reading cue: t in the basic Modern Hebrew cue.

Tet, ט, is the ninth alphabet letter. Tav, ת, is the twenty-second. A basic Modern Hebrew lesson can give both a t cue; that does not make their spelling or numerical value interchangeable. Look at the actual printed character instead of choosing a letter from sound alone.

The example טוב starts with Tet. Its gloss good belongs to this whole word in Genesis, not to a claim that the letter itself always means goodness. Letter recognition and a word’s meaning answer different questions.

One letter, three explicit values

Tet in Mazalogy’s three methods
Standard	Ordinal	Reduced letters
9	9	9

All three letters in טוב belong to the first nine alphabet positions. Their standard, ordinal and reduced values coincide individually, so all three word totals coincide as well. This is a useful control example before studying words containing the tens or hundreds letters.

טוב: good

Pointed source form: טוֹב · reading cue: tov. Genesis 1:4 · Mechon Mamre.

The verse describes the light as good. Count Tet, Vav and Bet; the holam point above Vav guides reading without adding an alphabet position.

Each actual letter in reading order; pronunciation marks contribute no values
Reading position	Written letter	Base letter	Standard	Ordinal	Reduced letters
1	ט	ט	9	9	9
2	ו	ו	6	6	6
3	ב	ב	2	2	2
Word total			17	17	17

Standard: 9 + 6 + 2 = 17 · Ordinal: 9 + 6 + 2 = 17 · Reduced letters: 9 + 6 + 2 = 17

Its group in the Gra version of Sefer Yetzirah

Tet ט is among the twelve simple letters / elementals listed in Gra 5:1: הוזחטילנסעצק. 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.