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שנה (shanah) — pictograph word study

שנה

Meaning: year; repeat, change

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 →
נ Nun — value 50
Fish, life multiplying, faithfulness (ne'eman); fifty — Jubilee, freedom, Shavuot's fiftieth day letter page →
ה Heh — value 5
Breath, revelation, behold!; the lightest letter — being itself; the definite article that makes anything 'the' letter page →

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