בחר (bachar) — pictograph word study

בחר

Meaning: choose, select, elect

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

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

ח Chet — value 8
Life (chai = 18 = twice chet's letters chet-yod), fence, enclosure; eight — the number beyond nature's seven letter page →

ר Resh — value 200
Head, beginning, chief; the person; two hundred — the poor man (rash) and the chief (rosh) spelled by one letter's fortunes letter page →

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