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# aleph

«aleph» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aleph/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Sefer Yetzirah Aleph is one of the three Mother letters, linked to air. It is called the head of all the letters. Interpretation: Aleph has the numerical value one and is silent. Tradition links it with God's oneness, and the Ten Commandments are said to begin with its sound in "Anochi."

### examples

- all the other letters, and all the other letters with Aleph (א). (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aleph/#x1)
- The Three Mothers are Aleph, Mem and Shin, they are Air, Water and Fire. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aleph/#x2)
- And this is the impress of the whole, twenty-one letters, all from one the Aleph. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aleph/#x3)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aleph» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/aleph/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.