Definition of Hebrew alphabet

1. Noun. A Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino).

Exact synonyms: Hebraic Alphabet, Hebrew Script
Generic synonyms: Alphabet, Unicameral Script
Member holonyms: Aleph, Beth, Gimel, Daleth, He, Waw, Zayin, Heth, Teth, Yodh, Kaph, Lamedh, Mem, Nun, Samekh, Ayin
Terms within: Pe, Sadhe, Qoph, Resh, Sin, Shin, Taw

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hebrew Alphabet

Hebraism
Hebraist
Hebraistic
Hebraistically
Hebraists
Hebraize
Hebraized
Hebraizes
Hebraizing
Hebrean
Hebreish
Hebrew
Hebrew Aramaic Scriptures
Hebrew Scripture
Hebrew Scriptures
Hebrew alphabet (current term)
Hebrew calendar
Hebrew lesson
Hebrew script
Hebrewdom
Hebrewess
Hebrewesses
Hebrews
Hebrician
Hebricians
Hebridean
Hebridean Islands
Hebridean Isles
Hebrideans
Hebrides

Literary usage of Hebrew alphabet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The Hebrew alphabet proper, as we find it on ancient coins, is evidently the same as that of the ..."

2. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: Including the Biblical by Wilhelm Gesenius, Edward Robinson (1844)
"... the ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet; as a numeral denoting 9; whence la iq 9 + 6, for m 15. The signification is uncertain. It is commonly explained ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"We have thus the whole Hebrew alphabet adopted, at least for numerical purposes, by the Greeks. Indeed, we have the evidence of very ancient monuments that ..."

4. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"Other instances of the occurrence of the Hebrew alphabet written by ignorant ... The oldest evidence on tí» subject of the Hebrew alphabet is derived from ..."

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