What does Aleph mean?

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ˈɑ lɪf, ˈɑ lɛfaleph

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. alephnoun

    the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Wiktionary

  1. alephnoun

    The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician Aleph , Aramaic , Syriac , Hebrew u05D0 and Arabic uFE8D.

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  1. Aleph

    Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep

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  1. aleph

    In various contexts, Aleph can have different meanings: 1. Mathematics: Aleph numbers are a sequence of numbers representing the cardinality of infinite sets. They were introduced by mathematician Georg Cantor to understand different "sizes" of infinity. The first number in the sequence is ℵ₀ (aleph-null), which represents countable infinity. 2. Language and Literature: Aleph is the first letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic. 3. Religion: Aleph is considered sacred in several religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In Judaism, it symbolizes the oneness of God. 4. Philosophy: The Italian author Jorge Luis Borges used "The Aleph" as a title of a story about a point in space that contains all other points, where one can see everything in the universe from different angles simultaneously. So, the term Aleph can refer to various seemingly unrelated concepts in different fields, from mathematics and religion to literature and philosophy. The specific usage and interpretation depends on the context.

Wikidata

  1. Aleph

    ʾĀlp is the reconstructed name of the first letter and Multiple Set Character of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician Aleph, Syriac 'Ālaph ܐ, Hebrew Aleph א, and Arabic Alif ا. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Alpha, being re-interpreted to express not the glottal consonant but the accompanying vowel, and hence the Latin A and Cyrillic А. The aleph is in Unicode at U+05D0 א hebrew letter alef. In phonetics, aleph originally represented the glottal stop, often transliterated as U+02BE ʾ modifier letter right half ring, based on the Greek spiritus lenis ʼ, for example, in the transliteration of the letter name itself, ʾāleph.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Aleph in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Aleph in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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