I have studied Hebrew and have a lot of Hebrew tools, and never heard that Bet stands for a tent or dwelling or a gimel stands for ben.
Then you have a lot to learn and your study has not begun yet. I suppose a lot of people will not learn this until they get to Heaven. I was a Christian for 40 years before I began my study of this.
The letter represents dwelling. AT the time they Hebrew Children were living in a tent.
Bet (letter)
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This article is about the Semitic letter. For the use of this letter in mathematics, see Beth number.
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Phoenician
Bet
Hebrew
ב
Aramaic
Bet
Syriac
ܒ
Arabic
ب
Phonemic representation b, v
Position in alphabet 2
Numerical value 2
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Greek
Latin
B
Cyrillic
В Б
Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Bēt Phoenician beth.svg, Hebrew Bēt ב, Aramaic Bēth Beth.svg, Syriac Bēṯ ܒ, and Arabic Bāʾ ب. Its sound value is a voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or a voiced labiodental fricative ⟨v⟩.
The letter's name means "house" in various Semitic languages (Arabic bayt, Akkadian bītu, bētu, Hebrew: bayiṯ, Phoenician bt etc.; ultimately all from Proto-Semitic *bayt-), and appears to derive from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a house by acrophony.