TYMK - Alphabet cheats

Mt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

If you wish to solve the riddle of the alphabet, you may approach it from two sides:

From the strokes

The metaphoric meaning of a letter... wait! wait! Letters don't have meaning!

Now you are starting to understand. Hebrew is the only known language that behaves this way. But because Hebrew was a dead language for so long, only to be revived when the Jewsih people started gathering in the first half of the nineteenth century , the meaning of the letters was lost. Only a memory that they had a meaning remained.

During the same time, the preserved sacred text (square letters) was transformed from sacred usage to common. Educational programs were started to teach the Jewish people their own language.

This is important because there is no authority for the meaning of the sacred alphabet letters. There is only a memory that they have meaning. The authority for the meaning will come from observations within scripture itself.

The letters derive their meaning from the strokes of the letters. There are two primary strokes which form all the other letters, and the second one is formed from the first.

The first stroke is conceptually an infinitesimally small dot. That is difficult to draw and even harder to see so the yod represents it. it is the same as the tenth letter of the alphabet. To the Greeks it is the iota. In English we call it a jot.