a way of saying God without actually saying the name of God (YHWH). In print, Hashem is usually written as Hei with a geresh: . Syriac Heh In the Syriac alphabet, the fifth letter is — Heh (). It is pronounced as an [h]. At the end of a word with a point above it, it represents the third-person feminine singular suffix. Without the point, it stands for the masculine equivalent. Standing alone with a horizontal line above it, it is the abbreviation for either hānoh (), meaning 'this is' or 'that is', or halelûya (). As a numeral, He represents the number five. Character encodings External links Phoenician alphabet Arabic letters Hebrew letters kk:ه tr:He (harf)