Lamed or Lamedh is the twelfth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Lamed and Arabic alphabet . Its sound value is . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Lambda (Λ), Latin L, and Cyrillic El (Л). Origins Lamedh is believed to have come from a pictogram of an ox goad or cattle prod. Some have suggested a shepherd's staff. Hebrew Lamed Orthographic variants Various Print Fonts CursiveHebrew RashiScript Serif Sans-serif Monospaced ל &… (More on Lamedh)