Pey ~ פא
Mouth
The 17th letter of the Aleph-Beit is Pey פ with a Gematria of 80.
The way this letter was drawn agrees with the meaning of the name of this letter.
Pey פה means 'mouth' and pa'ah is a root verb פאה meaning 'to blow' and is an onomatopoetic, the sound paah mirrors its meaning of blowing! It has two different sound as shown below:
פ = 'f' sound פּ = 'p' sound
It is one of the letters of Redemption (Geulah) with two different forms:
Pey S’ofit ף will always make a f sound ף = ‘f’ By definition Regular Pey will make a ‘p’ sound 99% eg Ex pasha פַשָא most Israelis read it as pashah not fashah.
Significance of Joseph's coat of many colours
In Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.
וישׂראל אהב את־יוסף מכל־בניו כי־בן־זקנים הוא לו ועשׂה לו כתנת פסים׃
Kotonet passim כתנת פסים
The Kaf כ and Pey פ in coat of colours - K’otonet P’asim:
Redemption – salvation is not a once of event as taught in Christianity, but a process of redemption. Paul states in Philipians 2:12
"work out your salvation with fear and trembling"
The way this letter was drawn agrees with the meaning of the name of this letter.
Pey פה means 'mouth' and pa'ah is a root verb פאה meaning 'to blow' and is an onomatopoetic, the sound paah mirrors its meaning of blowing! It has two different sound as shown below:
פ = 'f' sound פּ = 'p' sound
It is one of the letters of Redemption (Geulah) with two different forms:
- a regular form:
- a final, S'ofit form as follows:
Pey S’ofit ף will always make a f sound ף = ‘f’ By definition Regular Pey will make a ‘p’ sound 99% eg Ex pasha פַשָא most Israelis read it as pashah not fashah.
Significance of Joseph's coat of many colours
In Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colours.
וישׂראל אהב את־יוסף מכל־בניו כי־בן־זקנים הוא לו ועשׂה לו כתנת פסים׃
Kotonet passim כתנת פסים
The Kaf כ and Pey פ in coat of colours - K’otonet P’asim:
- Joseph is a picture of the 1st and the 2nd Redemption
- Pasim means 'colours' or 'strips'
- Gematria pasim פסים has gematria of פסים = 190
- The word 'End' katz קץ = 190
Redemption – salvation is not a once of event as taught in Christianity, but a process of redemption. Paul states in Philipians 2:12
"work out your salvation with fear and trembling"
