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יראה (yirah) — pictograph word study

יראה

Meaning: fear, reverence, awe

Letter by letter — the ancient pictures

י Yod — value 10
The hand, the deed; the point of essence; ten — completion of the units, the congregation (minyan), the commandments 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 →
א Alef — value 1
Oneness, primacy, the Master (aluph means chief); paradoxically silent — the source before all sound letter page →
ה Heh — value 5
Breath, revelation, behold!; the lightest letter — being itself; the definite article that makes anything 'the' letter page →

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