A-B-L – ‘diffusing, expanding productive cause, motive force’

AB – ‘productive cause, determining (seminal) motive force’

1. 1. אב, awb; a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application):

The potential sign united to that of interior activity produces a root whence come all ideas of productive cause, efficient will, determining movement, generative force. All ideas of paternity. Desire to have: a father: fruit. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 287)

BL This root should be conceived according to its two ways of composition: by the first, the root אל, which designates elevation, power, etc., is united to the sign of interior activity ב: by the second, it is the sign of extensive movement ל, which is contracted with the root בא, whose use is, as we have seen, to develop all ideas of progression, gradual advance, etc.: so that it is, in the first case, a dilating force, which acting from the centre to the circumference, augments the volume of things, causing a kind of bubbling, swelling; whereas in the second it is the thing itself which is transported or which is overthrown without augmenting in volume.

Every idea of distension, profusion, abundance; every idea of expansion, extension, tenuity, gentleness. In a figurative sense, spirituality, the human soul, the universal soul, the All, GOD. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 304-305)