Shin appears in 2 systems: the same name is used for more than one thing. Both are shown below.
Hebrew letters
Shin
Shin is the Hebrew letter of value 300, on path 31, connecting Hod and Malkuth. Its tarot is Judgement.
The King Scale colour and the stone, perfume, plant and animal are the Liber 777 attributions. The path numbering follows the tree.
Correspondences
- Tarot
- Judgement
Nature and meaning
- Hebrew
- ש
- Value
- 300
- Meaning
- Tooth
Details
- Path Number
- 31
- Connects
- HodMalkuth
- Attribution
- Fire
- Colour King Scale
- Orange scarlet
- Stone
- Fire opal
- Perfume
- Olibanum
- Plant
- Red poppy
- Animal
- Lion
- Letter Class
- Mother
Gematria
The four-headed shin of the tefillin is a real scribal feature and is the basis of the tradition's reading of the letter as doubled. The 'fire' element is Sefer Yetzirah's; the Golden Dawn's path attribution (fire, Judgement) agrees with it by design rather than by coincidence.
Practice
- Script
- Hebrew
- Derivation
- Shin = 300, ordinal 21, reduced 3, no final form. Spelled in full, שין = 300+10+50 = 360.
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Letter value
- Value
- 300
- Meaning
Shin is 'tooth' and one of the three mothers, the letter of fire (esh) and the initial of Shaddai, the name written on the mezuzah's scroll and worn in the tefillin. Its 300 is the length of Noah's ark in cubits, and the shin of the tefillin is written with four heads instead of three — an anomaly the tradition reads as a letter with another letter inside it.
Details
- Letter
- Shin
- Ordinal Value
- 21
- Reduced Value
- 3
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Referenced by 4
Every entry that names Shin, grouped by the system it comes from.
✦ Tarot 1
- Judgement Hebrew Letter
ℵ Gematria 1
- Shin Letter
More in Hebrew letters
The entries either side of this one in the same catalogue.
- Resh Resh is the Hebrew letter of value 200, on path 30, connecting Hod and Yesod. Its tarot is The Sun.
- Tav Tav is the Hebrew letter of value 400, on path 32, connecting Yesod and Malkuth. Its tarot is The World.
- Qoph Qoph is the Hebrew letter of value 100, on path 29, connecting Netzach and Malkuth. Its tarot is The Moon.
- Aleph Aleph is the Hebrew letter of value 1, on path 11, connecting Kether and Chokmah. Its tarot is The Fool.
- Tzaddi Tzaddi is the Hebrew letter of value 90, on path 28, connecting Netzach and Yesod. Its tarot is The Star.
- Beth Beth is the Hebrew letter of value 2, on path 12, connecting Kether and Binah. Its tarot is The Magician.
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