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tree. Following a bookmark in this tree brings up the verse describing
the birth and naming of the corresponding person.

• A separate “pure consonantal” version is also available from our web-
site which was produced from the same machine-readable text auto-
matically.

May the Lord God of hosts use our labours of love to open the eyes of
many in Israel that they may come to know the glory of their own people and
the light to lighten the Gentiles. First and foremost, I thank the Lord God of
Israel for graciously providing everything his servant needed for preserving
his precious words in this generation.

It is my pleasure to acknowledge the helpful contributions from the
following people (in alphabetical order by first name): Andreas Matthias,
Anoush Yavrian, Donald Arseneau, Duane D. Miller, Eric Browning, Ewan
MacLeod, Heiko Oberdiek, Jonathan Melville, Kirk Lowery, Mario Valente,
Mark E. Shoulson, Reinhard Kotucha, Ricardo Shahda, Ron Stewart, Saul
Levin, Sebastian Rahtz, Stefano Scaglione, Vladimir Volovich and Yannis
Haralambous.

Tigran Aivazian
London, England.

The Hebrew Alphabet

consists of 22 (2×11) letters, so the 5 finals were added to make up
three series of 9, or 27 in all:

Aleph ’ = 1 Yod y = 10 Koph q = 100

Beth b = 2 Kaph k = 20 Resh r = 200

Gimel g = 3 Lamed l = 30 Shin V = 300

Daleth d = 4 Mem m = 40 Tau t = 400

He h = 5 Nun n = 50 Kaph final K = 500

Vau w = 6 Samech s = 60 Mem final M = 600

Zayin z = 7 Ayin ‘ = 70 Nun final N = 700

Cheth x = 8 Pe p = 80 Pe final P = 800

Teth T = 9 Tsade Y = 90 Tsade final Z = 900