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CHAPTER 9 “WATER,” “CLOUDS,” “FOG,” AND OTHER

WATER-RELATED WORDS

CHAPTER 9

“Water,” “Clouds,” “Fog,”
and Other Water-Related Words

Water in all its shapes and forms abound in nature. Naturally, it enters as a main
constituent in many Hebrew words, with design revealed in unexpected patterns
and relationships between words. In this chapter, we address bizarre coincidences,
or signs of design, that one can detect in water-related words and phrases. Some of
the material in this chapter has been introduced in detail in earlier chapters, and

therefore will be displayed here only briefly.
There are four sections in this chapter:

9.1 Water and its properties
9.2 Water-carrying “substances”
9.3 The water cycle and the water path from underground to the river
9.4 Water heat capacity

9.1 Water in Hebrew (Mayim)

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A first distinction that one can make between “water” in Hebrew (mayim) and

in English refers to how water is related to in the two languages: it is singular in
English and plural in Hebrew. It is hard to pinpoint any logical reason for this
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bizarre difference until one learns the very special structure of the Hebrew mayim,
and why this structure leads to the logical acceptance of this word as plural.
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A second feature of the Hebrew word mayim, not unrelated to the previous
one, is its association with symmetry in more ways than one. This was discussed
at some length in section 5.3, and the reader is referred to that section for further
detail.

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