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CHAPTER 2 CASES OF DESIGN IN THE HEBREW LANGUAGE
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• Tehom is the Hebrew word relating to underground cavities where
water is stored. For example: “Land of water rivers, fountains and under-
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ground water [tehomot ]” (Deut. 8:7). The last letter of the primordial
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source of water, tehom, is mem (the English M).
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• Maayan in Hebrew means “fountain.” This is the place where the

underground water finds an outlet to go above ground. The last letter of
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tehom is the fi rst letter of maayan. 88
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• Nahar means “river.” A river receives water from fountains along its
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route. The first letter of nahar (river) is the last letter of maayan

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(fountain). A synonym for nahar is nachal. More precisely, nachal

in biblical language refers to the valley where water is flowing. Again, the
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last letter of “fountain” (maayan) is the fi rst letter of nachal. 90
This sequence of words is now displayed in its Hebrew form:
(רהנ) לחנ � נייעמ � מיימ � מוהת
Nachal� Maayan � Mayim � Tehom

Comments
1. The order, insinuated for the flow of water by the above sequence of words,

appears explicitly more than once in the Bible, either in the “correct” (natural)
order or in a reverse order.
Examples:

• “Land of water rivers, fountains and underground water” (Deut. 8:7)—a
reverse order.
• “He who dispatches fountains into rivers, among mountains will they
travel” (Pss. 104:16)—the natural order.

2. In the first three Hebrew words above (read from right to left), the last letter
of the word would in practice be written differently. The reason is that both
the letters mem and nun are written differently when at the end position
in a word. As related to earlier, we have opted to write word-end letters as
they would appear anywhere else in a word, so that the reader may trace the
relationships between these consecutive words.