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aleph

aleph

1 9.9
The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, like the letter A
  • noun
  • /ˈɑːlɛf/
translation icon : aleph
  • The aleph, that physical point in which the universe fits, stopped being prodigious and converted into hardly one of the innumerable letters that explain what it is.
  • aleph and bet
  • letter aleph
  • aleph zero

The letter that holds Ketter is the aleph, the alpha female, the alpha male.

Examples

  • The letter that holds Ketter is the aleph, the alpha female, the alpha male.

  • This makes the arithmetic of ideas seem very similar to the arithmetic of aleph zero.

    Academic text (1990)
  • In Hebrew we use Aleph a lot but also has a prescribed meaning.

  • The three root letters of emunah are aleph, mem, and nun.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Rabbi White Beard, in the high nasal voice he used to teach children aleph, bet, gimmel, dalet, asked, "What did you eat in the kitchen, my dear?"

    Fiction book (1998)
  • 9Phase.DR 1:1-aleph bootstrapped into reality, meshing with the underlying routines.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • From the root aleph, mem, and nun, we also obtain the noun amahn, which means "artist, expert, master craftsman."

    Academic text (1992)
  • He also studied at the Ulpan, taking his foundational aleph-bet skills quickly to the level of conversational Hebrew.

    Blog text (32)
  • That does not make the alephs and omega less ontologically "real" than 1 or 2 from a mathematical point of view, where some theorems can elegantly be demonstrated by making use of them.

    Blog text (26)
  • In Hebrew, the letter aleph is the first letter of the alphabet.

Synonyms

alef
vsaleph
9.9

The first letter of the Hebrew and Arabic alphabets

is limited to the first letter in Hebrew only

Compounds

aleph-zero
  • Specialized
1 9.9

The size of all whole numbers like 0, 1, 2 and so on, the smallest infinity

9.9

The number of all counting numbers that is the smallest kind of infinity

Surface Forms

aleph singular
alephs plural

Etymology

Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and it comes from an old Semitic word meaning 'ox', because early people drew an ox head as the sign for this sound. That's why aleph is like our letter A or the Greek alpha and marks the first place.