In the first place we must take the old Hebrew alphabet.

The Hebrew alphabet, Mr. Spinrobin, is a 'discourse in methods of manifestation, of formation.'

Each of the twenty-two portions begins with one of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

He could not have repeated the Hebrew alphabet.

Mother Letters (Hebrew ): There are three primary or mother letters in the Hebrew alphabet.

The first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet are used in Rabbinic writings in a similar way.

"That," said he, "is substantially the order of the old Hebrew alphabet."

Sometimes cited as having the names of the three mother letters in the Hebrew alphabet: Aleph, Mem, and Shin.

Of knowledge wholly useless to me I had learned to read the Hebrew alphabet from Dr. Bard's elementary Hebrew book.

Double Letters (Hebrew ): The seven double letters of the Hebrew alphabet originally could be pronounced in two distinct ways.

The Grecian Jews spoke the Grecian language, the Spanish Jews the Spanish, the Barbary Jews the Arabic, but all three used the Hebrew alphabet.

St. Jerome wavered between the argument based upon the twenty-two letters in the Hebrew alphabet and that suggested by the twenty-four elders in the Apocalypse.

Simple Letters (Hebrew ): Together with the three mother letters and the seven double letters of the Hebrew alphabet, there are twelve simple letters.

We find also ''the seal of God is Emeth,'' Emeth (truth) being composed of the first, middle and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

"Let the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet in which Torah is written come and testify against Israel," said God.

They both follow in their acrostic structure an unusual order of the Hebrew alphabet, differing in this respect from chapters 1 and 3.