Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?

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This is what I thought. From Hebrew.

In all honesty, I don't know which of the two languages is older.

Hebrew is slightly older than Greek but it was also more isolated than Greek and likely did not have much influence on Greek. As another commenter pointed out, Phoenician is the accepted source for the Greek alphabet.