yodh – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Yodh
Yodh (also spelled
Yud,
Yod,
Jod, or
Jodh) is the tenth
letter of the
Semitic abjads, including
Phoenician Yōd ,
Hebrew Yōd ,
Aramaic Yodh ,
Syriac Yōḏ , and
Arabic (in
abjadi order, 28th in modern order). Its sound value is in all languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a
long vowel, representing .
yodh
Noun
1. the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
(hypernym) letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character
(member-holonym) Hebrew alphabet, Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew script
Yod
Yod, Yodh (Hebrew) The tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet representing the number 10. A great deal has been written about this Hebrew character by Jewish Qabbalists because it is the first character in the name of the Hebrew God (IHVH) transliterated as Jehovah or Yahweh. The pronunciation of this name for ages past has been lost, and the Jews, when coming upon it in the Bible, have either mentally or aloud substituted the word 'Adonai (my Lords).
The Jewish IHVH was but the ancient Hebrew form of the deity equally recognized, although with far less reverence, by other ancient nations of the Near East, called Yaho among the Phoenicians, Iao among the Gnostics, etc. It was an androgynous deity, recognized as existing in nature, and mystically having an intimate magnetic connection with the planet Saturn. The influence of this cosmic bipolar force is known everywhere, expressing itself as positive and negative or in human beings as male and female. This deity is by no means one of the highest or most spiritual in the solar system, being one of the manifested cosmic powers rather than one of the unmanifest spiritualities. In fact the four-lettered name, IHVH or Tetragrammaton, from one view is as Blavatsky remarks, "pre-eminently phallic." Ancient Jewish initiates equally with initiates of other countries turned to their 'eyn soph as the loftiest encompassing universal life-wisdom, very much as the ancient Hindus turned to parabrahman for the same reasons.
YODH
IOD [DECIMA LETTERA DELL'ALFABETO EBRAICO]. YODH [DECIMA LETTERA DELL'ALFABETO EBRAICO]. YOD [DECIMA LETTERA DELL'ALFABETO EBRAICO]
