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  • From: "Charles David Isbell" <cisbell AT home.com>
  • To: "Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Hebrew and Hieroglyphs
  • Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:33:34 -0500


Peter wrote: "Hebrew mem (mayim) = water was originally the Egyptian wavy
line sign for water (pronounced n in Egyptian), and this shape, while lost
in Hebrew, is still discernable in our M."
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Peter, the modern cursive Hebrew form of MEM is exactly this "wavy" shape
you are describing.

Be well,

Charles





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