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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