Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See caph.
- n. The eleventh letter (ℶ) of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the Greek kappa and English k or c. Its numerical value is XX.
Wiktionary
- n. The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
WordNet 3.0
- n. the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Etymologies
- From Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”) (Akkadian 𒀉 (kappu), Hebrew כַּף (kaṗ), Arabic كَفّ (kaff), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎔 (kp)) (Wiktionary)
- Hebrew kap, of Phoenician origin; see kpp1 in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Aleph-kaph-mem when googled led me to the definition 'Angel'...”
“Actual Hebrew letters in original. mem and tet are transposed, kaph and vav look just like resh. * = final forms.p. 52, note "54".”
Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy
“In the latter expression the word for "hand," kaph, signifies "the palm of the hand," consequently, not even hidden uncleanness within the hand, -- therefore complete innocency.”
“On the basis of "like" = the famous kaph veritatis, and the well-known principle, post hoc ergo hoc”
“A: Well, there’s been a lot of confusion over consonants like he, waw, heh, yod, kaph, mem, and zayin . . .”
“[5] - except for letters א aleph and ע ayin, which are silent. vav nail, tent peg hand kaph palm of hand”
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