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Hebrew alphabet   /hˈibru ˈælfəbˌɛt/   Listen
Hebrew alphabet

noun
1.
A Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino).  Synonyms: Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew script.






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"Hebrew alphabet" Quotes from Famous Books



... around him, he ultimately arrives at the conclusion of the unity of God"[19]; but since this process is accomplished by an arrangement of the Divine Emanations under the name of the Ten Sephiroths, and in the permutation of numerals and of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, it would certainly convey no such idea—nor probably indeed any idea at all—to the mind uninitiated into Cabalistic systems. The Sepher Yetzirah is in fact admittedly a work of extraordinary obscurity[20] and almost certainly of extreme ...
— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

... Hebrew "rouah AElohim," which is literally "the Breathing of God"; and similarly, the ancient religious books of India, make the "Swara" or Great Breath the commencement of all life and energy. The word "rouah" in Genesis is remarkable. According to rabbinical teaching, each letter of the Hebrew alphabet has a certain symbolic significance, and when examined in this manner, the root from which this word is derived conveys the idea of Expansive Movement. It is the opposite of the word "hoshech," translated "darkness" in the same passage of our Bible, which is ...
— The Law and the Word • Thomas Troward



Words linked to "Hebrew alphabet" :   he, aleph, daleth, nun, kaph, Hebrew script, teth, beth, resh, mem, lamedh, alphabet, ayin, yodh, zayin, heth, gimel, taw, samekh, waw, shin, sin, sadhe, qoph, pe, unicameral script



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