Vav

For the town of this name in Sudan, see Waw.

Vav or waw is the sixth letter of the Phoenician, Hebrew, and Arabic (in abjad order) alphabets. It is the twenty-seventh in modern Arabic order. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek digamma (Ϝ) and upsilon (Υ), which in turn gave rise to the Latin F, V, and Y; V later developed into U and W.

Vav has the numerical value six in enumerations (even in Arabic).

In gematria, Vaw represents the number six. Its script is a vertical line and resembles a person standing.

External link

• The Mystical Significance of the Hebrew Letters: Vav