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aleph

[ ah-lif; Hebrew ah-lef ]

noun

  1. the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
  2. the glottal stop consonant or, alternatively, long vowel represented by this letter.


aleph

/ ˈaËlÉ›f; ˈɑËlɪf /

noun

  1. the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet (×) articulated as a glottal stop and transliterated with a superior comma (`)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of aleph1

1250–1300; Middle English < Hebrew Äå±ô±ð±è³ó, akin to eleph ox
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of aleph1

Hebrew: ox
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Example Sentences

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They analysed a single Hebrew letter, aleph, which appears more than 5,000 times in the scroll.

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Sinai, God’s voice, in midrash, was heard communally, but was so overwhelming that only the first letter, aleph, was sounded.

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In that warbled register — the name of the Hebrew letter aleph came out sounding like “olive†— she delivered a soliloquy on the long catalog of extinct species with her words floating on undulating string sounds.

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The first word of the portion has its last letter, an 'aleph,' written smaller than the other letters.

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But I wasn’t influenced by him, I was influenced by the idea of aleph, the concept.

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