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ATBASH
Specialty Definition: Atbash cipher
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Atbash is a simple substitution cipher in Hebrew. It consists of substituting
aleph (the first letter) for
tav (the last),
beth (the second) for
shin (one before last), and so on, reversing the alphabet. A couple of words in the Book of Jeremiah,
Leb Kamai and
Sheshakh, are atbash for
Kasdim (Chaldeans) and Babel respectively, probably written thus.
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