מ

Letter

 * 1) Mem: the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, after  and before.
 * 2) The numeral 40 in Hebrew numbering.

Usage notes

 * The letter denotes the phoneme  (like the sound of ⟨m⟩ in the English word ).
 * The letter has a distinct special form used at the ends of words, namely . This form is called mem sofit or (in English) final mem.
 * For information about מ as a preposition meaning roughly “from”, see.
 * 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.