A-B-Q – ‘determining cause of material existence and forms’

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

1. 1. אבק, 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)

BQ Every idea of evacuation, of draining. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 308)

Q This character as consonant, belongs to the guttural sound. As symbolic image it represents a trenchant weapon, that which serves as instrument for man, to defend, to make an effort for him. It has already been remarked, that nearly all the words which hold to this consonant in the greater part of the idioms, designate force and constraint. It is, in the Hebraic tongue, the compressive and decisive sign; that of agglomerative or repressive force. It is the character כ entirely materialized; the progression of the sign is as follows : ה, vocal principle, sign of absolute life: ח, aspirate principle, sign of elementary existence : ג, guttural principle, organic sign: כ, same principle strengthened, sign of assimilated existence holding to forms alone: ק, same principle greatly strengthened, sign of mechanical, material existence giving the means of forms. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 438)