Bet,
Beth,
Beh, or
Vet is the second
letter of the
Semitic abjads, including
Phoenician Bēt ,
Hebrew Bēt ,
Aramaic Bēth ,
Syriac Bēṯ , and
Arabic Its sound value is a
Voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or a
Voiced labiodental fricative ⟨v⟩. This letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic , Akkadian , Hebrew: , Phoenician etc.; ultimately all from
Proto-Semitic ), and appears to derive from an
Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by
acrophony.