Zero in Modern Hebrew

אֶפֶס , pronounced "efes" meaning "zero" in modern hebrew, with its deeper roots expressing absence, or ends, or completion.

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1. Sifre (a scribe, to count, a book) related to the English word "cipher", and the Arab word "sifr" meaning "zero" or 0
2. Sof (End/Limit): a word that directly expresses the concept of a boundary or conclusion, and used by the Masorete scribes from about the year 600 to print a ":", i.e. a colon as the delimiter of Hebrew verses in Old Testament
3. Looking at Rev 1:8, Jesus's words Alpha and Omega (A and Ω), while Omicron in Greek is a closed circle, Omega is an unclosed circle like Ein Sof (infinite)
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