100
Ed Metzler
Greek alphabet dropped the
letters Waw, Tzadi,
and
Kof, but added Ypsilon,
Phi, Chi, Psi, and
Omega, so that it
shares 19 out of 22 letters with
the
ancient Hebrew alphabet.8)
All of its 22 letters
occur in
the same order in the Ugaritic
alphabet,
which has
eight additional letters.
Since the
chances of
hitting the same alphabetical
order
of 22 letters at
random are one in billions
of
thousands of billions, all
of the alphabets must
be
descendants of one original
alphabet.9) Yet,
it
seemed as if we would never know
the genius
who invented
it.
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8) The obsolete letters Waw (F) and
Kof (Q) were retained
as
Greek numerals at their
appropriate places in the
alphabetical
order, so that
the Greek alphabet originally
even had 21 letters
in
common with the
ancient Hebrew alphabet. Since
Tzadi was
dropped, the
numerical value of Hebrew
Kof (100) is only
90 in
Greek. Another
obsolete letter-name retained
as a numeral
(900),
although not at
its former place
in the alphabetical
order, is
Sampi "shut up!", see below
Note 27.
9) The Sefer Yetzirah (chapter 4, no.
16) gives the number
of permutations
for seven letters (=
5040) adding, "continue
from
here on to
calculate what the mouth
cannot say, and the
ear
cannot hear." The
uniqueness of the one
and only alphabetical
order is
illustrated by the number
of possibilities of arranging
its
22 letters in different
orders, which is not infinite,
but calculable:
22 ! = 1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
19. 20. 21. 22 =
1 124 000
727 777 607
680 000, i.
e. billions of
thousands
of billions,
see TORAH OF
THE ALPHABET (N.
1) p. 53.
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