Aleph (letter)

This is about the Hebrew letter. For mathematical and other uses of Aleph see Aleph.

Aleph or Alef is the first letter of the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Alpha, the Latin A and the Cyrillic equivalent. Alpha, like all Phoenician letters, represented a consonant, but the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic equivalents have all come to represent vowel sounds.

In the Sefer Yetzirah, The letter Aleph is King over Breath, Formed Air in the universe, Temperate in the Year, and the Chest in the soul and has the numerical value of 1.