אל״ף

אל״ף
אל״ףAlef, the first letter of the Alphabet. Y.Snh.I, 18a bot.; a. fr. Y.Yeb.IV, 6a כל שהוא בה״י רבה באל״ף (referring to harbah arbeh Gen. 3:16) the embryo that counts harbah with Hé, (the numerical value being 212days), will grow; that which counts arbeh with Alef (i. e. 208 days, or less than seven months) will lie down (die); (cmp. הַרְבָּה for differ. versions).B. Bath. 168b א׳ ביתוכ׳ mere Alef Beth (arbitrary words). Gen. R. s. 1 הא׳ קרא תגר the Alef complained.Y.Sabb.XVI, 15c top א׳ בי״ת אחד one of the alphabetical acrostics (chapters) of Lamentations.Pl. אלפ״ין. Sabb.103b. Ex. R. s. 38; a. e.אָאִין. Y.Ber.II, 4d bot. they pronounce עיינין א׳ Ayins like Alefs.Sabb.103b אלף אלף דאאזרךוכ׳ ed. (Ms. M. omits דאאזרך) they differ as to one who wrote on the Sabbath two such letters as Alef, Alef (of ăazzerkha Is. 45:5) being merely vowels; v. בגלטורי.

Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. . 1903.

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