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שבט (shevet) — pictograph word study

שבט

Meaning: tribe, rod, scepter

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 →
ט Tet — value 9
Hidden goodness; the vessel; nine — months of pregnancy, goodness carried unseen before it is born letter page →

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