אבד (avad) — pictograph word study

אבד

Meaning: perish, be lost, destroy

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

א Alef — value 1
Oneness, primacy, the Master (aluph means chief); paradoxically silent — the source before all sound letter page →

ב Bet — value 2
House, household, within-ness; duality (2) — the first letter that can contain something letter page →

ד Dalet — value 4
Door, pathway, lowliness (dal — poor, humble); the fourth direction that completes a space letter page →

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