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קדוש (kadosh) — pictograph word study

קדוש

Meaning: holy, set apart, sacred

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

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 →
ד Dalet — value 4
Door, pathway, lowliness (dal — poor, humble); the fourth direction that completes a space letter page →
ו Vav — value 6
Connection, and-ness; the nail that joins; six — the number of man (created day six) and of physical space (six directions) 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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