A-B-W-N – ‘productive cause of the creative imagination’

A-B – ‘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)

BN If one conceives the root בא, which contains all ideas of progression, growth, birth, as vested with the extensive sign ן, to form the root בן, this root will develop the idea of generative extension, of production analogous to the producing being of an emanation; if one considers this same root בן, as result of the contraction of the sign of interiorב  activity with the root אן which characterizes the circumscriptive extent of being, then it would be the symbol of every active production proceeding from potentiality in action, from every manifestation of generative action, from the me.

In a figurative sense it is an emanation, intelligible or sentient; in a literal sense, it is a son, a formation, an embodiment, a construction. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 305-306)

BWN Action of conceiving, of exercising one’s conceptive, intellectual faculties; action of thinking, having ideas, forming a plan, meditating; etc. (The Hebraic Tongue Restored, Fabré d’Olivet, p. 306)