צר (tzar) — pictograph word study

צר

Meaning: adversary, distress, narrow

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

צ Tsadi — value 90
Righteousness (tzedek), the righteous one (tzaddik); the hunter's hook turned to holy pursuit; ninety — Sarah's age at Isaac's promise letter page →

ר Resh — value 200
Head, beginning, chief; the person; two hundred — the poor man (rash) and the chief (rosh) spelled by one letter's fortunes letter page →

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