חכם (chacham) — pictograph word study

חכם

Meaning: wise, skillful, sage

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

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

כ Kaf — value 20
Palm, covering, capacity; likeness (the prefix ke-, 'like'); twenty — the joined hands (10+10) letter page →

ם Mem — value 40
Water, flow, womb, source; forty — the number of testing and transformation (flood, Sinai, wilderness) letter page →

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