Aleph Definition

älĕf, -ləf
noun
The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
American Heritage
The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet (א)
Webster's New World
The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician Aleph (ʾaleph), Aramaic , Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (“aleph”) and Arabic ا (álif).
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Aleph

Noun

Singular:
aleph
Plural:
alephs

Origin of Aleph

  • Hebrew אלף (álef), with a Hellenized ph spelling due to influence from alpha.

    From Wiktionary

  • Hebrew ’ālep of Phoenician origin ℵlp in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Aleph Sentence Examples

  • But the definition of the cardinal number of a class applies when the class is not finite, and it can be proved that there are different infinite cardinal numbers, and that there is a least infinite cardinal, now usually denoted by o where to is the Hebrew letter aleph.

  • The Hebrew "alephbet" comes from the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet - "aleph" and "bet."

  • By this permutation, Aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, becomes Lamed, the twelfth letter; Beth becomes Mem, and so on.

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Words Starting With

AALALE

Words Ending With

HPHEPH

Unscrambles

aleph

Words Starting With A and Ending With H

Starts With A & Ends With HStarts With AL & Ends With HStarts With A & Ends With PH

Word Length

5 Letter Words5 Letter Words Starting With A5 Letter Words Ending With H