אמת (emet) — pictograph word study

אמת

Meaning: truth, firmness, faithfulness

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 →

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

ת Tav — value 400
Mark, sign, seal, covenant witness; completion — the last letter, the destination of the alphabet; four hundred — years foretold to Abraham letter page →

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