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לקח (lakach) — pictograph word study

לקח

Meaning: take, receive, fetch, marry

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

ל Lamed — value 30
Learning, teaching, the shepherd's staff and ox-goad; aspiration — the tallest letter, the tower of the alphabet letter page →
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 →
ח Chet — value 8
Life (chai = 18 = twice chet's letters chet-yod), fence, enclosure; eight — the number beyond nature's seven letter page →

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