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CHAPTER 9 “WATER,” “CLOUDS,” “FOG,” AND OTHER WATER-RELATED WORDS
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In this section, the focus is on another property of water, which is revealed as
hidden information in the structure of a Hebrew word related to water.
In section 2.1.3, we referred to the bizarre phenomenon that the numerical val-
ues of certain Hebrew words comprise repeated appearance of a single digit, which
is strongly linked to an essential property of the object that the word represents.
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The example given was the root of the word for “firstborn” (bechor in Hebrew;
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refer to section 2.1.3). The root of bechor, B.K.R, yields: 2+20+200 = 222. We

elaborated on why 2 is so significantly associated with a firstborn. In section 10.3.4,
we relate to another Hebrew word that demonstrates the same phenomenon.
Can the same be identified with respect to a Hebrew word related to water?

Bizarrely enough, yes.
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Take the Hebrew word for snow : sheleg. Since water is associated with three
phases of existence (solid, liquid, and vapor), all of which coexist in regular envi-
ronmental conditions (no laboratory is needed to produce any of these phases),
one would expect a word for water to be associated with 3, just as human blood is
associated with 4 (since there are four human blood groups).
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With sheleg, the “signifi cant” digit, 3, repeatedly appears in the numerical
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value of the word (though in reverse order relative to bechor): 300+30+3 = 333.
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We realize that each succeeding letter in the word sheleg has a smaller numerical
value, but each of these values is a multiple of 3, and the total sum is 333. This is
shown below:

333 = (3 = ג) + (30 = ל) + (300 = ש)

Thus, a word which stands for one of the three possible states of water in
nature convey by the numerical values of its constituent letters, as well as by their
total sum, a basic property of water—namely, that it naturally exists in either of
three different basic phases (solid, liquid, and vapor).
Finally, it is interesting to note that other Hebrew words that stand for water
in its other modes of existence (nonliquid water) carry very close numerical
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values. Thus, ice is kerach, with a numerical value of 308, and steam is kitor,
with a numerical value of 325. Section 9.4 shows that this is probably not a
coincidence.

9.2 Water-Carrying Substances
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The word ayin in Hebrew conveys at least three different meanings: it can mean
“a source of water” (a fountain) or “eye,” and it is the name of the seventeenth