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# alphabet

«alphabet» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **the set of letters used to write a language, put in a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an alphabet, alphabets; the alphabet)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The alphabet is the set of letters used to write a language, put in a fixed order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#m1)

2) An alphabet is any such set of letters, like the Greek alphabet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#m2)

3) The basics of something are sometimes called its alphabet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: In Sefer Yetzirah, the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet are the tools God used to make the world, each one carved, weighed and combined. In the primary lessons: In literacy the English alphabet has 26 letters from A to Z: 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and 21 consonants (y can act as both). Alphabetical order is used in dictionaries, registers and indexes. Other alphabets: Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic. Phrases: «alphabet song», «in alphabetical order».

### examples

- Drawing the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet around the edge of a circle, it takes 231 lines, here called שְׁעָרִים sheʽarim ‘gates’, to connect every possible combination of 2 letters. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x1)
- 7:1 Thus for instance, they imagined that the name of Jehovah, יהוי, is by reversing the alphabet; מצפץ (mzpz); mem signifies the letter jod, zaddi, the letter he, and pe, the letter wav. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x2)
- ") See -Alphabet of Ben Sira", ed. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x3)
- The English alphabet has 26 letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x4)
- Can you say the alphabet backwards? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x5)
- Put these words in alphabetical order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x6)
- The Greek alphabet starts with alpha and beta. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x7)
- Little children sing the alphabet song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x8)
- Z is the last letter of the alphabet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x9)
- Chinese is not written with an alphabet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x10)
- The eighth letter from the end of the alphabet is S, and therefore the snail received the second prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/A/alphabet/#x11)

### note

The word comes from alpha and beta, the first two Greek letters. Adjective: alphabetical. In maths, the alphabet has 26 letters, so the middle is between M (13th) and N (14th). Not all writing systems are alphabets.

### In the corpora

- [That is why an alphabet is so powerful: English needs only 26 letters, but Chinese writing uses thousands of characters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/88-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water/29/)
- [Real life: the alphabet was not made in one day by one family; it grew over about 2,000 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/89-justso-alphabet-3-the-alphabet-all-complete/21/)
- [Think of the elements as the letters of an alphabet: about a hundred letters spell out every substance in the world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/2-elements-and-the-periodic-table/4/)
- [Rome left us roads, laws, the alphabet, the names of months, languages, buildings and the Christian church.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/19/)
- [The English alphabet has 26 letters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/230-letters-colours-and-points/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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