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alpha and omega

Pronunciation pronunciation key
alfă, ōmaygă

Definition 
The entirety or most important part of something; the first and last of something. The phrase appears in Revelation 1:8, 21:6, and 22:13 and, according to the NIV Study Bible, means, "God is the beginning and the end…. He rules sovereignly over all human history. In 22:13 Jesus applies the same title to himself." Alpha and omega are respectively the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, which was adopted around 1000 B.C. Engine performance is the alpha and omega of all research done at this facility.

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