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שבע (shava) — pictograph word study

שבע

Meaning: swear, take an oath

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 →
ב Bet — value 2
House, household, within-ness; duality (2) — the first letter that can contain something 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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