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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the English D. Its numerical value is IV.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Alternative form of dalet.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

Etymologies

  1. Hebrew dālet, of Phoenician origin; see dl in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “So I've tentatively extrapolated that gamma, delta, iota, chi, and rho are *cemla (cf. gimel), *talta (cf. daleth), *eiata (cf. yod), *χei and *rusa (cf. resh).”

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  • “And together the two exiled men began to recite, at first in whispers, then more loudly: "Aleph, beth, gimel, daleth ...".”

    Elie Wiesel - Nobel Lecture

  • “He had screens in his laboratory that broke it all down into individual patterns-the steady pulsing waves from the cortex, the alpha and beta waves; beta-aleph and beta-beth and beta-gimel and beta-daleth.”

    The Fuzzy Papers

  • “[Hebrew letter 'resh'] for a [Hebrew letter 'daleth'].”

    The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

  • “The [Hebrew: daleth] meaning four would easily be misread for [Hebrew: resh] meaning 200.] [Footnote 79: The Knights of the Hospital of St. John and the Templars are here referred to.”

    The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

  • “He had screens in his laboratory that broke it all down into individual patterns -- the steady pulsing waves from the cortex, the alpha and beta waves; beta-aleph and beta-beth and beta-gimel and beta-daleth.”

    Little Fuzzy

  • “They had no other or more appropriate confession of this than is seen in the root [Hebrew letters] yedo -- knowledge, compounded of the three symbols _yod_, _daleth_, _oin_ --”

    Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance

  • “Thus _aleph_, an ox; _beth_, a tent; _daleth_, a tent-door; _lamed_, an ox-goad; _mem_, water;”

    Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance

  • “Their _beth_ was a house in the tent form; their _gimel_ a camel, represented by its head and neck; their _daleth_ a door, and so on.”

    History of Phoenicia

  • “As a certain person once said to me after I pointed out to him that our pronounciation of the undotted daleth is plainly incorrect [as explained above]: 'Do you imagine that the Hidushe HaRim [a great Tora sage of the last century] did not read Shema properly?”

    Esser Agaroth

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