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1281) Em% (Em% MH) ac: ? co: Sea ab: ?: The pictograph m is a picture of water. The sea (Mediterranean) is a place of the unknown (what is beyond or what is below). It is feared by the Ancient Hebrews because of its size, storms and fierceness. A hundred as an unknowable amount. This parent root is related to fm, im and me.

A) Em% (Em% MH) ac: ? co: Sea ab: ?: The sea as the place of the Unknown or anything that is an Unknown or in question.

Nm) Em% (Em% MH) — I. What: Something that is unknown, can also be why, when or how. [Hebrew and Aramaic] [ar: am] II. Water: From the sea. [This word always appears in the plural form, mim, when used for water] [df: Nys] [freq. 625] |kjv: what, how, why, whereby, wherein, how, water, piss, waterspring| {str: 3964, 4100, 4101, 4325, 7890}

B) Eem% (Eem% MHH) ac: ? co: Linger ab: ?: A questioning of forward motion.

Nm) Eem% (Eem% M-HH) — Linger: [freq. 9] |kjv: linger, tarry, delay, stay| {str: 4102}

 



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