kwaw said:
AVVLTh - FOOL
BDYM – CONJUROR
GBYRH – MAIDEN, QUEEN MOTHER (Bride and Mother of the Lord. A title of the Shekinah, often imaged dressed as a ‘Bride' of the Lord’)
DBR – LEADER, TO LEAD [THE FLOCK], COMMAND; DBRH – TO LEAD, ALSO BEE, BIBLICAL HEROINE LEADER , AND PROPHETESS [DEBORAH - FEMALE LEADER], DBR – LEAD THE FLOCK, THE SWARM; DRIVE, COMMAND; LEADER
HGMN – GENERAL, HGMNYA –COMMANDERSHIP, COURT, ADMINISTRATION, HGMNYVT – STAFF OF COMMANDERSHIP,
VDAY, (VYDY) – THOU THE KNOWN ONE, WELL KNOWN, DISTINCTION (CONFESSION, FORGIVENESS [BY THE HIGH PRIEST], BENEVOLENCE)
ZVG – JOIN TOGETHER, COUPLE, MATCHMAKE, TO WED, JOIN IN WEDLOCK, PAIR, SET
ChBH – TO BE BELOVED, HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM, HONOUR;ChBSh – TO SADDLE, TO HARNESS [TO BRING UNDER CONTROL, INTO OBEDIENCE].
If a vessel is marked with a Teth, it means:
TBL – SUBJECT TO A TITHE [A MEASURED SHARE]; TRVTNY – A BALANCE FOR WEIGHING ACCURATELY.
YVM – LIGHT, TIME.
KVSh – SPINDLE; KRKR – TO MOVE IN A CIRCLE; ROUND; KLYL – CIRCLE, CROWN, TO CROWN.
LYBB – TO STRENGTHEN, MAKE COURAGEOUS ("the king took his son and made him courageous by making him attack the (tamed) lion"); LBYA - LION.
MYTH – PENALTY OF DEATH ; MYTVTA – DYING; MYTR – CORD, ROPE; MYTNA – DEATH, ROPE, DRAWING TOWARDS ONESELF.
NBLH – NATURAL DEATH; NFSh – DEATH.
SVD – DELIBERATION, COUNCIL, MYSTERY, SECRET (where the wine enters (where there is intemperance) counsel [SVD] leaves; where the wine has left (where there is temperance) deliberation [SVD] enters. He that is abstinent [temperate] is granted the counsel [SVD] of divine wisdom.
SVK – TO POUR; SVFQA – LARGE WINE VESSEL; SChT – CAUSE TO FLOW; SChF – TO TILT OVER, INVERT (“like two cups inverted one over the other:” :- v. SChYFA ‘AN INVERTED VESSEL’
OBVT – CHAIN, ROPE used to yoke (“at first the evil inclination resembles a thread of cobweb, and at the end it is like a wagon rope”); OBVDH – IDOLATRY, AN IDOL, A HEATHEN DIETY, STRANGE SERVICE/LABOUR (BENEATH ONE’S STATION); OBD – SLAVE, SERVANT, TO WORSHIP AN IDOL,
FAR – TO CUT THE CROWN OFF; FGVM – SEMI-CIRCULAR TURRET; FGYOH – STRIKING AGAINST.
TzVF – FLOOD, INUNDATE, CAUSE TO OVERFLOW; TzBO - HOSTS (of heaven = stars)
QBOA – PROCLAMATION OF NEW MOON DAY, BY WHICH THE LUNAR CALENDAR IS REGULATED. QDR - black, blackish, dark, darkened, heavily, mourn.
RShF - BURNING HEAT; RVMVLVS / RVMVS – ROMULUS AND REMUS THE TWO ORPHANS FOR WHOM THOU DIDST APPOINT A WOLF.
ShFVT, ShVT – JUDGEMENT; ShFR – TRUMPET
ThBL – WORLD
Kwaw
That is not meant to be an exhaustive list of course, just one or two words for each card to show that different alphabetic sequences are possible, nothing exceptional or beyond what may be expected by chance. Each of the above is extendable, and probably you could create a completely different order again if you wish [a gebelin order may be, starting alef - world and working backwards, or anything to suit your own fancy]. Here from a previous thread is a more extended list for another of the cards, shin - judgement:
"Grace is deceptive,
Beauty is illusory;
It is for her fear of the Lord
That a woman is to be praised."
Proverbs 31.30.
Proverbs 31 ends the book of proverbs and the last 22 verses are an acrostic, each verse starting with a word beginning with a letter of the alphabet, alef to tau. The above paragraph is the letter Shin paragraph, the verse beginning with the word ShQR meaning 'deceitful'. Positing an alphabet sequence starting alef-fool the letter Shin corresponds to the card 'Judgement'. Some words beginning with Shin which relate to the Judgement card are:
ShVFR - trumpet
ShVF - to blow
ShVFT - judge, judgement
So the words for Trumpet, to Blow and Judgement all share the same three initial consonants shin - vau - pei [Ph or F], which are also the first three letters in ShVFRA, which means 'Grace'.
The root of both ShVFRA [grace]and SHVFR [trumpet] is ShFR - to cleanse, make pleasing, to beautify; conciliate, harmonize. As in Sotah 11b [Talmud]where it says :"The Lord sent an angel from on high who
cleansed them and made them
beautiful, like a midwife that
cleanses a child." So we may say the blow of the trumpet not only awakens, but is simultaneously an act of Grace that like a wind cleanses away the dust of the earth, the stain of our sins; like a midwife that cleanses the newly [re]born; and makes us beautiful before G-d.
A word for dust, ShChQ, also means heaven, sky, cloud:
Drop down, ye heavens from above, and let the
skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together;I the LORD have created it.
So we may perhaps see a parallel between the cloud as ShChQ in the upper world in which the Angel (ShNAN) appears and man the sleeping corpses (ShKDA) awakened by the call of the Angel in the cloud (ShChQ) above from the dust (ShChQ) of the earth below. There are a couple of words beginning with Shin that refer to the underworld or the grave:
ShAVL – the underworld, grave, pit:
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. 1 sam. 2:6
ShQT – pit, grave:
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit:I have found a ransom.
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Job 33:24 / 28 / 30.
The name of the letter ShYN itself is the root of the word ShYNH - second coming, and of ShYNA – sleep, ShYNAN angel.
ShAVL [and /or ShChVThA] - netherworld, pit, grave [pit, grave];
ShKDA - asleep, corpse;
ShVLL - Naked;
ShV - change, reverse, something bewildering;
ShY - repeat, do a second time; ShYNH - second coming;
ShMYA – heavens;
ShChQ – sky, heaven, cloud, dust;
ShYNAN – Angel;
ShVFR – trumpet;
ShVSThG - a piece of cloth (the flag);
ShShR - Painted red;
ShVF – to blow;
ShVFT – judgement;
ShVFRA – Grace (divine love whereby we are reborn).
Of course you will find that you can find a lot of words for some cards and fewer for others; and these will be different in different orders, order a for example having more words to match the world than order b, but order b or c having more words for hermit or some other card - at least this is what I would expect to find by chance. One order will of necessity have more words overall than the others, but it would need to be significantly greater to demonstrate anything beyond chance.
Kwaw