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שכח (shachach) — pictograph word study

שכח

Meaning: forget, ignore

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

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 →
כ Kaf — value 20
Palm, covering, capacity; likeness (the prefix ke-, 'like'); twenty — the joined hands (10+10) 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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