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קרבן (korban) — pictograph word study

קרבן

Meaning: offering, sacrifice, gift brought near

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 →
ר Resh — value 200
Head, beginning, chief; the person; two hundred — the poor man (rash) and the chief (rosh) spelled by one letter's fortunes letter page →
ב Bet — value 2
House, household, within-ness; duality (2) — the first letter that can contain something letter page →
ן Nun — value 50
Fish, life multiplying, faithfulness (ne'eman); fifty — Jubilee, freedom, Shavuot's fiftieth day letter page →

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