טעם (taam) — pictograph word study

טעם

Meaning: taste, discern, judgment

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

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

ע Ayin — value 70
Eye, seeing, perception; the spring; seventy — nations of the world, elders of Israel, faces of Torah letter page →

ם Mem — value 40
Water, flow, womb, source; forty — the number of testing and transformation (flood, Sinai, wilderness) letter page →

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