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 →

2) An alphabet is any such set of letters, like the Greek alphabet. tree →

3) The basics of something are sometimes called its alphabet. tree →

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 →
• 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 →
• ") See -Alphabet of Ben Sira", ed. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
• The English alphabet has 26 letters. tree →
• Can you say the alphabet backwards? tree →
• Put these words in alphabetical order. tree →
• The Greek alphabet starts with alpha and beta. tree →
• Little children sing the alphabet song. tree →
• Z is the last letter of the alphabet. tree →
• Chinese is not written with an alphabet. tree →
• The eighth letter from the end of the alphabet is S, and therefore the snail received the second prize. tree →

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.
• Real life: the alphabet was not made in one day by one family; it grew over about 2,000 years.
• Think of the elements as the letters of an alphabet: about a hundred letters spell out every substance in the world.
• Rome left us roads, laws, the alphabet, the names of months, languages, buildings and the Christian church.
• The English alphabet has 26 letters.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «alphabet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.