2 August 2017
This post is part of a broader project to make a modified online version of the Brown-Driver-Briggs dictionary. See bdb-project.
[Aleph]. Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In post-biblical Hebrew, it is equivalent to the numeral 1, and it is used in that way in the margins of printed Hebrew Bibles (Masoretic Text). An Aleph with two dots above it represents 1000. There is no evidence for the usage of Aleph as a numeral in Old Testament times.