Daleth
da'-leth (...): The 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and as such used in Ps 119:1-176 to designate the Ps 4:1-8th section; transliterated in this Encyclopedia with the dagesh as d, and, without, as dh ( = th in "the"). It came also to be used for the number four (4), and with the dieresis for 4,000. With the apostrophe it is sometimes used as abbreviation for the tetragrammaton. For name, etc., see ALPHABET.