What does 'The Alpha and the Omega' mean?

Question

Jeth L: Thanks. Doesn't quite make sense though, if the Christian god supposedly doesn't have a beginning or an end...

Answer 1

The beginning and the end

Answer 2

Alpha and Omega is an appellation of Jesus and God in the book of Revelation (verses 1:8, 21:16, and 22:13). Its meaning is found in the fact that Alpha(Α) and Omega(Ω) are respectively the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. This would be similar to referring to someone in English as "the A to Z". Thus, twice when the title appears it is further clarified with the additional title "the Beginning and the End" (21:16, 22:13).

The attribution of this title to both Jesus and God by the author of Revelation shows he believes there is a unique association between Jesus and God. Such exaltation of Jesus by ascribing to him deity is a common theme in the book of Revelation. Therefore the letters Alpha and Omega in juxtaposition are often used as a Christian visual symbol.

This symbol was suggested by the Apocalypse, where Christ, as well as the Father, is "the First and the Last"; "the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end". It was, however, in the monuments of early Christianity that the symbolic Alpha and Omega had their greatest vogue.

This phrase is interpreted by many Christians to mean that Jesus existed from the beginning of time (as the second person of the Trinity), and will exist eternally.

Emet, literally "truth", one of the names of God in Judaism, has been interpreted as consisting of the first, middle and final letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

Answer 3

I think you have got your question answered, looking at the responses...
Yes having studied Old Testament Greek for some years now, Alpha is the First Letter of the Greek Alphabet, and Omega is the Final Letter of the Greek Alphabet...
Interestingly enough the word ALPHABET is a fusing together of the first two letters of the Greek Alphabet ALPHA and BETA...
Above all the reference to the Alpha and Omega is a New Testament Reference to Jesus Christ see Rev Ch1. The inferences are that Christ is the First and Last. The term also is an all inclusive title of Christ, meaning that Christ not only is the first and the last, but everything in between, Check out a sermon on this at
http://www.fpcaudio.org/sermoninfo.asp?currSection=sermonsspeaker&sermonID=5310417454

Answer 4

These are the names of the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet and are used as a title three times in the book of Revelation.
The title "the Alpha and the Omega" carries the same thought as "the first and the last" and "the beginning and the end" when these terms are used with reference to Jehovah.Before him there was no Almighty God,and there will be none after Him.

Answer 5

Alpha (upper case Α ; lower case α) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 1. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Aleph . Letters that arose from Alpha include the Latin A and the Cyrillic letter А.


Omega (Ω ω) is the 24th and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system it had a value of 800. The word literally means "great O" (ō mega, mega meaning 'great'), as opposed to Omicron, which means "little O" (o mikron, micron meaning 'little').[1] This name is Byzantine; in Classical Greek, the letter was called ō (ὦ), whereas the Omicron was called ou (οὖ).

The form of the letter derives from a double omicron, which came to be written open at the top.

Phonetically, the Ancient Greek Ω is a long o, similar to the vowel of English close. It is transcribed ō or simply o. In Modern Greek Ω is a short o similar to the vowel of British English pot.

Omega is often used to denote the last, the end, or the ultimate limit of a set, in contrast to Alpha, the first letter of the Greek Alphabet. Jesus declares himself to be the "Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last".

Omega was also adopted into the early Cyrillic alphabet. See omega (Cyrillic) (Ѡ, ѡ). A Raetic variant is at the origin of Elder Futhark ᛟ.

Answer 6

The First and the Last. The Beginning and the End.

Answer 7

Alpha & Omega = Begining and the End

Alpha is the first letter in the Greek Alphabet, Omega is the last

Answer 8

The beginning and the end - alpha being the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and omega the last.

Answer 9

the beginning and the end

Alpha and Omega (Gr. "το 'Αλφα και το Ω") is an appellation of Jesus and God in the book of Revelation (verses 1:8, 21:16, and 22:13). Its meaning is found in the fact that Alpha(Α) and Omega(Ω) are respectively the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. This would be similar to referring to someone in English as "the A to Z". Thus, twice when the title appears it is further clarified with the additional title "the Beginning and the End" (21:16, 22:13).

The attribution of this title to both Jesus and God by the author of Revelation shows he believes there is a unique association between Jesus and God. Such exaltation of Jesus by ascribing to him deity is a common theme in the book of Revelation.

Answer 10

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord God, He Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty (the Ruler of all). [Isa 9:6 ]

Answer 11

Alpha and the Omega' beginning and end.same time to god this words are using it's mean no beginning or end to god.