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נגע (naga) — pictograph word study

נגע

Meaning: touch, strike, reach

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

נ Nun — value 50
Fish, life multiplying, faithfulness (ne'eman); fifty — Jubilee, freedom, Shavuot's fiftieth day letter page →
ג Gimel — value 3
Movement, giving, ripening (gamal — to deal fully, to wean); the camel that carries provision across distance letter page →
ע Ayin — value 70
Eye, seeing, perception; the spring; seventy — nations of the world, elders of Israel, faces of Torah letter page →

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