ברא (bara) — pictograph word study

ברא

Meaning: create, shape (God as subject)

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 →

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 →

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

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