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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

kaf "k": The 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet; transliterated in this Encyclopedia as "k", with daghesh, and "kh" (=German ch) without daghesh. It came also to be used for the number 20. For name, etc., see ALPHABET.