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איש (ish) — pictograph word study

איש

Meaning: man, husband, each one

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 →
י Yod — value 10
The hand, the deed; the point of essence; ten — completion of the units, the congregation (minyan), the commandments 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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