מ

מ • (m)

1. Mem: the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, after ל‎ and before נ‎.
2. The numeral 5 in Hebrew numbering.

• The letter מ‎ denotes the phoneme /m/ (like the sound of <m> in the English word mess).
• The letter מ‎ has a distinct special form used at the ends of words, namely ם‎. This form is called mem sofit or (in English) final mem.
• For information about מ as a preposition meaning roughly “from”, see מ־‎.
• For information about מ as a sort of prefix in the present tense and present participle of pi'él, pu'ál, hif'íl, huf'ál, and hitpa'él verbs, see Appendix:Hebrew verbs.
• For information about ם as a suffix meaning roughly “them”, which is one form of the third-person masculine plural personal pronoun, see ־ם‎.

• (Hebrew script letters) א‎,‏ ב‎,‏ ג‎,‏ ד‎,‏ ה‎,‏ ו‎,‏ ז‎,‏ ח‎,‏ ט‎,‏ י‎,‏ כ‎ך‎,‏ ל‎,‏ מם‎,‏ נ‎ן‎,‏ ס‎,‏ ע‎,‏ פ‎ף‎,‏ צ‎ץ‎,‏ ק‎,‏ ר‎,‏ ש‎,‏ ת‎