Qoph appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
Gematria
Qoph
Qoph is 'back of the head' or, in the older guess, the eye of a needle; its shape descends below the line of the script, which the tradition reads as the descent of the holy into the world.
The 'eye of a needle' sense is a guess and 'back of the head' the usual gloss; the descent below the line is the script's and the reading of it is the Kabbalists'. The 100 is a round number and attracts over-reading accordingly.
Practice
- Script
- Hebrew
- Derivation
- Qoph = 100, ordinal 19, reduced 1, no final form. Spelled in full, קוף = 100+6+80 = 186.
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Letter value
- Value
- 100
- Meaning
Qoph is 'back of the head' or, in the older guess, the eye of a needle; its shape descends below the line of the script, which the tradition reads as the descent of the holy into the world. Its 100 is the number of the hundred blessings and of the hundred cubits of the sanctuary court, and qoph is the initial of kedushah, holiness, which the handlists make the letter's whole office.
Details
- Letter
- Qoph
- Ordinal Value
- 19
- Reduced Value
- 1
Hebrew letters
The King Scale colour and the stone, perfume, plant and animal are the Liber 777 attributions. The path numbering follows the tree.
Correspondences
- Tarot
- The Moon
Nature and meaning
- Hebrew
- ק
- Value
- 100
- Meaning
- Back of head
Details
- Path Number
- 29
- Connects
- NetzachMalkuth
- Attribution
- Pisces
- Colour King Scale
- Crimson
- Stone
- Pearl
- Perfume
- Ambergris
- Plant
- Opium poppy
- Animal
- Fish
- Letter Class
- Simple
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