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Definition of Aleph
1. Noun. The 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Generic synonyms: Alphabetic Character, Letter, Letter Of The Alphabet
Definition of Aleph
1. Noun. The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician Aleph (term ???? sc=Phnx tr=? aleph lang=phn), Aramaic (term ???? sc=Armi), Syriac (term sc=Syrc ? '?laph lang=syc), Hebrew (term ? sc=Hebr aleph lang=he) and Arabic (term ? sc=Arab tr=? ?álif lang=ar). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aleph
1. a Hebrew letter [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aleph
Literary usage of Aleph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biblical and Theological Studies by Princeton Theological Seminary (1912)
"No verb that had originally an aleph as its third radical has been found either
in Nabatean, or Palmyrene. What Dr. Driver means us to understand is, ..."
2. The Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and the Theory of Fourier's Series by Ernest William Hobson (1907)
"The cardinal number of {«}, or of Z {^} is denoted by iilt THE GENERAL THEORY OF
aleph-NUMBERS. 141. It has now been shewn that the ordinal numbers of the ..."
3. Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language by Isaac Nordheimer (1842)
"Peculiarities of aleph. § 87. K is the weakest of all the consonants, whence it
was formerly employed in the representation of the simplest vowel a. ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of Hebrew: Containing Grammar Exercises and by Joseph Thomas Lawrence Maggs (1894)
"Where aleph stands at the beginning of a syllable, as before vowel affixes, ...
aleph is so far a guttural as to require a in Qal impv. and impf., ..."
5. Mithridates Minor, Or, An Essay on Language by Henry Welsford (1848)
"The Samaritan or Phoenician aleph is the Greek and Roman A, both as to name and
power. The Samaritan He, the fifth letter of ..."
6. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts, Allan Menzies, Novatianus (1870)
"They therefore took Him to the master; and he, as soon as he saw Him, wrote out
the alphabet for Him, and told Him to say aleph. And when He had said aleph, ..."
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