The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, representing a glottal stop and having a numerical value of 1 in Hebrew numerology.
From Hebrew 'aleph,' meaning ox or cattle (the letter originally depicted an ox head), borrowed into English through direct transliteration.
The Hebrew letter alef started as a picture of an ox—flip it upside down and you can still see the horns—but over centuries it transformed into an abstract symbol, showing how writing evolves from pictures to code.
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