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Word: aleph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would seem, therefore, to be of some significance . . . that the first letter of the alphabet is Alpha, the Hebrew Aleph, 'a Bull' . . . Scanning down through the other letters of the Hebrew alphabet which have names with recognized meanings in the Hebrew, we find that they also deal with ideas current in astrology-a house, a hand, an eye, a fish, a serpent . . . while, strangely enough, the last of all in the Hebrew is Taw, a 'mark,' a 'sacred symbol,' the Aramaic Tor, 'oryx' or 'ox,' the Arabic Thaw, the Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Letters from Heaven | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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