The entries in each section are sorted according to the Hebrew alphabet.
Prefixes indicating prepositions and articles (such as ב, ד, ה, ש, כ) have been removed, with the following exceptions: Some abbreviations included here are actually gematria (Hebrew numeronyms), but the number is so closely associated with some noun that it is grammatically used as a noun and is synonymous with it, for example ב"ן, Ban.
Many of the abbreviations here are similar or identical to corresponding Hebrew acronyms.
In fact, a work written in Aramaic may have Hebrew acronyms interspersed throughout (ex.
Talmud, Midrash), much as a Hebrew work may borrow from Aramaic (ex.