Lamedh
Lamedh or Lamed is the twelfth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew 'Lāmed , Aramaic Lāmadh , Syriac Lāmaḏ ܠ, Arabic , and Phoenician Lāmed . Its sound value is . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda (Λ), Latin L, and Cyrillic El (Л). Origin. The letter is usually considered to have originated from the representation of a goad, i.e. a cattle prod, or a shepherd's crook, i.e. a pastoral staff. Hebrew Lamed. Hebrew spelling: Pronunciation. Lamed transcribes as an alveolar lateral approximant . Significance. Lamed in gematria represents the number 30. With the letter Vav it refers to the  Lamedvavniks, the 36 righteous people who save the world from destruction. As an abbreviation, it can stand for litre. Also, a sign on a car with a Lamed on it means that the driver is a student of driving (the Lamed stands for "", learner). It is also used as the Electoral symbol for the Yisrael Beiteinu party. As a prefix, it can have two purposes: Arabic. The letter is named , and is written in several ways depending on its position in the word: Some examples on its uses in Modern Standard Arabic. (Normally, diacritics are not written): The other construction , ( ) is used as an emphatic particle in very formal Arabic and in certain fixed constructions, such as (itself an emphatic particle for past-tense verbs) and in the conditional structure , effectively one of the forms of 'if...then...'.