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Definition of aleph in English: alephnoun ˈɑːlɛfˈälif The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Example sentencesExamples - So God compensates him by making the aleph the first letter of the word for God.
- In another classic instance of more-is-less, Prior, who was jolted by a sudden vision of a neon aleph in Part I, is now shown the better part of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Lamentations 3 is an acrostic on the Hebrew alphabet, each letter given three lines: three alephs, three beths, three gimmels, and so on.
- In Hebrew, Adam is spelled using the same letters as the word me'od ‘- mem, aleph, daled - but in different sequence: aleph, daled, mem.’
- Similarly, it is customary to write Yehudah with an aleph rather than a final hey, lest one accidentally leave out the letter dalet and write the Tetragrammaton.
Origin Middle English: from Hebrew 'ālep̱, literally 'ox' (the character in Phoenician and ancient Hebrew possibly being derived from a hieroglyph of an ox's head). Definition of aleph in US English: alephnounˈälif The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Example sentencesExamples - Lamentations 3 is an acrostic on the Hebrew alphabet, each letter given three lines: three alephs, three beths, three gimmels, and so on.
- Similarly, it is customary to write Yehudah with an aleph rather than a final hey, lest one accidentally leave out the letter dalet and write the Tetragrammaton.
- In another classic instance of more-is-less, Prior, who was jolted by a sudden vision of a neon aleph in Part I, is now shown the better part of the Hebrew alphabet.
- So God compensates him by making the aleph the first letter of the word for God.
- In Hebrew, Adam is spelled using the same letters as the word me'od ‘- mem, aleph, daled - but in different sequence: aleph, daled, mem.’
Origin Middle English: from Hebrew 'ālep̱, literally ‘ox’ (the character in Phoenician and ancient Hebrew possibly being derived from a hieroglyph of an ox's head). |