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COINCIDENCES IN THE BIBLE AND IN BIBLICAL HEBREW
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letter in the Hebrew alphabet, with a numerical value of 70. (A fourth meaning,
“color,” is the subject of statistical analysis in section 10.3.3.)
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Being “source of water” common to all these different senses of the word ayin
(the name of the letter simply means “an eye”), it is only natural to expect that
design, visible in the structure of various Hebrew words, would also manifest
itself, in words related to water production, by having the letter ayin appear in
their roots.
Indeed, examining various Hebrew words, the common denominator of which

is that they all relate to objects carrying water, one finds that these words invari-
ably start with the letter ayin.
Examples:

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• A cloud is anan; ayin is its fi rst letter.
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• A cloud is av (often, a small cloud); ain is its fi rst letter.
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• Fog is arafel; ayin is its fi rst letter.
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• Clouds, in proverbial speech, are arifim (a rare word, which can be
found, for example, in Isa. 5:30); ayin is the first letter.

Comments
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1. The word av, for cloud, is interesting. It has as its root A.B.H. This root gives
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rise to words implying “thick” (aveh). Thus, av conveys the concept of con-
densation (thickening) of water vapor into droplets that form the cloud. The
process by which a cloud is formed is thus conveyed.
2. The above four words describe a source of water, and they all start with
ayin. However, the latter is the Hebrew name of the two epitomes for
water-producing sources—namely, “fountain” and “eye,” both named ayin. 6

9.3 The Water Cycle

The continuous circular process in which water evaporates from the oceans
(mainly), condenses, falls to earth (as rain, snow, or hail), and eventually returns
to the oceans (through runoff in rivers or streams) is called the natural water cycle,
also known as the hydrologic cycle . A major player in this cycle is the environment

temperature. The earth water first vaporizes through low pressure but (mostly)
high temperature. Rising from the surface of the earth into the atmosphere, it
encounters a decrease in temperature, condenses to form clouds, which subse-
quently, when the temperature and atmospheric pressure are right, form large