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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Alpha

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: No

Strongs Concordance:

  • G1 Used 4 times

 

Naves Topical Index
Alpha

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Alpha

(A), the first letter of the Greek alphabet. With Omega, the last letter, it is used in the Old Testament and in the New to express the eternity of God, as including both the beginning and the end. (Revelation 1:8,11; 21:6; 22;13; Isaiah 41:4; 44:6) hence these letters became a favorite symbol of the eternal divinity of our Lord, and were used for this purpose in connection with the cross, or the monogram of Christ (i.e. the first two letters, ch and r, of Christ's name in Greek). Both Greeks and Hebrews employed the letters of the alphabet as numerals.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Alpha

AL'PHA, noun [Heb. an ox, a leader.]

The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and used to denote first or beginning.

I am alpha and Omega. Revelation 1:8.

As a numeral, it stands for one. It was formerly used also to denote chief; as, Plato was the alpha of the wits.


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Alphabet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Alphabet

AL'PHABET, noun [Gr.]

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters which form the elements of speech.

AL'PHABET, verb transitive To arrange in the order of an alphabet; to form an alphabet in a book, or designate the leaves by the letters of the alphabet


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Alphabetarian

ALPHABETA'RIAN, noun A learner while in the adjective B.C.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Alphabetic

ALPHABET'IC,

ALPHABET'ICAL, adjective In the order of an alphabet, or in the order of the letters as customarily arranged.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Alphabetically

ALPHABET'ICALLY, adverb In an alphabetical manner; in the customary order of the letters.


Easton's Bible Dictionary
Alphaeus

1. The father of James the Less, the apostle and writer of the epistle (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13), and the husband of Mary (John 19:25). The Hebrew form of this name is Cleopas, or Clopas (q.v.).

2. The father of Levi, or Matthew (Mark 2:14).


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Alphaeus

(changing) the father of the apostle James the Less, (Matthew 10:3; Mark 3:18; Luke 6:15; Acts 1:13) and husband of Mary. (John 19:25) [MARY] In this latter place he is called Clopas (not, as in the Authorized Version, Cleophas).