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בקש (bikesh) — pictograph word study

בקש

Meaning: seek, search, request

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 →
ק Qof — value 100
Holiness (kedushah) and its counterfeit (the imitating monkey); the sun at the horizon — circuits of time; one hundred — Abraham's age at Isaac's birth letter page →
ש Shin — value 300
Fire, teeth, transformation; the letter of Shaddai on every mezuzah and in the priestly hands; three hundred — Gideon's refined company letter page →

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