The Hebrew Alphabet, Acrostic Psalms, Picture Letters. We can learn the aleph- bet by examining various Biblical passages which are written as acrostics (alphabetically ordered verses and each first word commencing with each Hebrew letter of the alphabet in turn, from 1 through to 2. Psalm 1. 19 is a famous example, written with 8 verses for each of the Hebrew consonants in order, so verses 1- 8 each have a first word beginning with 'aleph and verses 9- 1. Acrostic passages occur in the following Psalms. Psalm 9 2 verses for each of the 2. Hebrew consonants. Unlike English the Hebrew alphabet is a consonantal one: there are no separate letters for vowels in the written alphabet. To help us remember when it was all cupids and hearts, we enlisted the help of some children, all 5 to 8 years old. Editor Lauren Lumsden asked them about. Psalm 1. 0 2 verses each. Psalm 2. 5 1 verse each. Psalm 3. 4 1 verse each. Psalm 3. 7 2 verses each. Psalm 1. 11 ½ verse each. Psalm 1. 12 ½ verse each. Psalm 1. 19 8 verses each Psalm 1. Additional acrostics chapters can be found in Lamentations and Proverbs - full details in the course: "BIBLICAL HEBREW made easy". The Significance of 2. As early as the 1st & 2nd centuries B. C. the Jews noted that 2. Hebrew alphabet but also the number of generations from Adam to Jacob (israel), the number of works of creation, and the number of books in the Jewish canon of the Bible. Sources: Josephus; the book of Jubilees 2. Kabbalah). Picture Letters. The first Hebrew letter, 'Aleph, originally represented an ox head and was similarly portrayed in Phoenician and Ancient Greek as well as Ancient Hebrew. The name for the first letter, 'âleph is the same as the Hebrew word 'eleph which signifies an ox. This probably derives from two ideas, firstly from 'êl which means 'strong' or 'mighty' and as such is used of God, hence of the ox because of its strength. Secondly, in derivation from 'âlaph which is a primary verbal root meaning to 'associate with', 'be familiar with', 'be accustomed to' and as such was used of friendship, taming, joining together (hence as a numeral, '1.
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