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What is an aleph?

What is an aleph? Here are some definitions.

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  1. The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician Aleph 𐤀‏ (ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀‏, Syriac ܐ‏ ('ālaph), Hebrew א‏ (“aleph”) and Arabic ا‏ (ʾalif).
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Similarly, it is customary to write Yehudah with an aleph rather than a final hey, lest one accidentally leave out the letter dalet and write the Tetragrammaton.
The first begins with aleph, the second with Beth, and so on, the second verse of each pair not being counted in the scheme.
In another classic instance of more-is-less, Prior, who was jolted by a sudden vision of a neon aleph in Part I, is now shown the better part of the Hebrew alphabet.
More likely, he is an aleph, an eventful trompe-l'oeil, the ornamental archivolt of Italy's exploded order, the empty barycenter of Italy's populist constructivism.
Its name is thought to have corresponded closely to the Hebrew or Arabic aleph.
The first word of the poem begins with aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, and the last one begins with the last letter, taw.

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