כתב (katav) — pictograph word study

כתב

Meaning: write, record, inscribe

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 →

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 →

ב Bet — value 2
House, household, within-ness; duality (2) — the first letter that can contain something letter page →

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