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משפט (mishpat) — pictograph word study

משפט

Meaning: judgment, justice, ordinance

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

מ Mem — value 40
Water, flow, womb, source; forty — the number of testing and transformation (flood, Sinai, wilderness) 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 →
פ Peh — value 80
Mouth, speech, breath given words; eighty — the age of Moses when his mouth was commissioned letter page →
ט Tet — value 9
Hidden goodness; the vessel; nine — months of pregnancy, goodness carried unseen before it is born letter page →

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