כעס (kaas) — pictograph word study

כעס

Meaning: anger, vexation, provoke

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

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

ע Ayin — value 70
Eye, seeing, perception; the spring; seventy — nations of the world, elders of Israel, faces of Torah letter page →

ס Samekh — value 60
Support, surrounding protection, the endless circle; somech noflim — He upholds the falling letter page →

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