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aleph
[ ah-lif; Hebrew ah-lef ]
noun
- the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- the glottal stop consonant or, alternatively, long vowel represented by this letter.
aleph
/ ˈaËlÉ›f; ˈɑËlɪf /
noun
- the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet (×) articulated as a glottal stop and transliterated with a superior comma (`)
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of aleph1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of aleph1
Example Sentences
They analysed a single Hebrew letter, aleph, which appears more than 5,000 times in the scroll.
Sinai, God’s voice, in midrash, was heard communally, but was so overwhelming that only the first letter, aleph, was sounded.
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.
The first word of the portion has its last letter, an 'aleph,' written smaller than the other letters.
But I wasn’t influenced by him, I was influenced by the idea of aleph, the concept.
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