Ancient Hebrew Letter Hey. The ancient pictograph of a window symbolized to show or to reveal. Chet is sometimes transliterated as h which is why you sometimes see the word chanukah spelled as hanukkah in english.
The original pictograph for this letter is , a man standing with his arms raised up. The ancient pictograph is a picture of a seed sprout representing the idea of continuing to a new generation. Yod meaning “hand,” and the sixteenth letter is named ayin meaning “eye.”
In ancient hebrew the “hey” indicated “behold.” the “hey” in hebrew serves in several ways, one of which can be the definite article “the” when it is the first letter of the word.
Chet makes a light, scraping sound in the back of the throat while making an h sound.chet is known as a guttural letter since it is pronounced in the back of the throat. Hey is the fifth hebrew letter, it doubles as the number 5, it developed into the greek letter 'epsilon' (ε/ε), only a sound, and then our letter 'e/e'. Through the ancient phoenician language, the letter hei actually became the modern letter “e” in the english and latin alphabets. The ancient pictograph is a picture of a seed sprout representing the idea of continuing to a new generation.