LEXICON OF ORIENTAL WORDS IN ANCIENT GREEK

αλφ <Semitic; Hellenistic period>

👉 αλφ – ‘name of the Hebrew letter א’ (LXX: Ps. 118.1), αλ(ε)φ ‘id.’ (LXX: La., app. crit.), ἄλφ ‘id.’ (Eus., PE 10.5.4, 10.5.11, 11.6.34).

Cf. Eus., PE 10.5.3-12.

🅔 A transliteration of the Hebrew letter name – cf. Jewish Aramaic ʾālap̄, ʾlp ‘name of the letter א’, Syriac ʾālap̄ ‘name of the letter ܐ’, etc. Cf. ἄλφα 1.

📖 Data: DJBA: 136; DJPA: 60; SL: 50.