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שמן (shemen) — pictograph word study

שמן

Meaning: oil, fatness, anointing

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 →
מ Mem — value 40
Water, flow, womb, source; forty — the number of testing and transformation (flood, Sinai, wilderness) letter page →
ן Nun — value 50
Fish, life multiplying, faithfulness (ne'eman); fifty — Jubilee, freedom, Shavuot's fiftieth day letter page →

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