Quph     q & Q

The circle has no beginning or end, just as the Lord the Son it represents has no beginning or end. A line with a beginning and end represents a man, who has a beginning and an end (Heb 9:27). The circumference (diameter x Pi) of a circle, representing the Lord in bodily (tabernacle) form, is closed down into a slit (closing mouth-shaped opening, diameter x Pi ÷ 2), representing the Lord the Son coming down to be born the Son of Man with a body of flesh having a beginning and an end in the death on the Cross (see Tav). The body of the Lord, Yeshua, then rose from physical death to be glorified in being one with the Lord of Shamayim (Heaven[s]) and Arets (Earth). And so, a man who dies to self in the death of ha'Mashiach (the Christ) on the Cross, then also rises in the Son's resurrection in a body glorified with continuous purification to be one with the Lord of all creation in perfect union (Rom 6:3, 4, 5; Phil 3:20, 21). This is shown in the slit (line) opening up into the opening of the circle (seen in the urinary meatus, lips, eyelids, & etc.) forming the dual image of the beginning form of the 19th letter Quph, seen in the vertical slit of the clenched circular raised hand with closed fingernails (eyes, see 'ayin) and the bohen (thumb) coming down. This fist forms a circle of Bayit (tabernacle) with a closed slit, including the bohen, having a length the same as a slit that is opened back into a circle of the Bayit (length of fist + thumb = diameter of fist x Pi ÷ 2). The closing of the circle into a slit that is opened back into a circle makes a complete cycle of time/space that represents the dual image of Quph.

As Quph equals 19, the 19th cycle of 19 also completes a cycle of time/space (19 x 19 = 361, a complete cycle of 360 + 1 past). Starting from ha'Aviv (the 1st month), in a year Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) moves from increasing light (spring equinox to summer solstice), to increasing darkness (to winter solstice), and then back to light (to spring equinox+). A complete Moon & Arets (Earth) yearly cycle (or lunar year) is 355 days (29.53 x 12 = 354.36); a complete Sun & Arets yearly cycle (or solar year) is 366 days (365.24); the full average of both yearly cycles is 361 days ([355+366]/2=360.5; [365.24+354.36]/2=359.8; 360 would be the average, except any part of the next number is the next number, like eating 1 cookie & 1 bite [0.125] of a cookie, 2 cookies are being eaten); and a complete Sun & Moon & Arets cycle (or the Metonic cycle) is 19 years. In the first month during Pesach (Passover, holiday around spring equinox) and in the month beginning the year during Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles/Booths,holiday around fall equinox), 361 Sun diameters move side by side across the daytime sky; and 361 Moon diameters move side by side across the nighttime sky (not at the same time of the month), with both the Sun and the Moon completing a cycle of 12 hours of the day/night like the 12 months of the year. A complete cycle of time/space is seen in a day as Yerushalayim turns from light, to darkness, and then to the light in one day with 361 diameters of the Sun & Moon together when the unseen Moon moves as one with the Sun (Sun is aligned together with Moon during New Moon) and 361 Sun diameters mirrored by the Moon fully seen (at a Full Moon, the Sun is opposite the fully reflecting Moon). And, just as the Moon, as seen from Arets, moves from light (first sliver of Moon to Full Moon), to darkness (New Moon), and back to light (first sliver of Moon) in a month; a woman's womb cycles from life (follicular to ovulation phase), to death (menstrual phase), and back to life (follicular phase) in a month, and the vertical slit becomes a circle to bring forth life. This is as Yeshua, the Dawning Light (vertical sliver, Mt 4:16; Isa 60:1-3), is the Vertical Line; who in coming down died on the Cross and was buried in a dark rock pit at the time of the Full Moon to give life to the dead (in sin), who are resurrected in Yeshua the Circle of Light, as he was brought forth from the mouth/pit of darkness. Praise be to the Lord of Avraham, Yitschaq, & Ya'aqov.

The light fads to darkness as the eclipse of the iris (Sun) with the pupil (Moon), occurring within the white of the eye, sets behind the eyelid. As the horizontal eyelid slit opens to become one with the circular opening of the eye to reveal the eclipse of the Sun with the Moon occurring within the clouds of the sky (white of eye), the light rises to be seen through the pupil of the eye, the window allowing vision of light. This is as we, the horizontal line who turned from the Light toward darkness bringing about salty tears, become one with the Lord, the Circle of Light, being seen as holy throught Yeshua (pupil) to allow us to commune with the holy Lord. This blink of the eye, being the image of the final letter of Quph, is to a day like a day is to a 1000 years. Quph then has a meaning of a completed cycle of time from light to darkness and back to light.

The eye of the needle moves from the right side of the fabric in the light to the wrong side of the fabric in the dark and back again to the light to complete a cycle of closing and opening the eye of the needle as it passes through the material. Quph then is accomplished by the eye of the needle that resembles the image of the beginning form of the letter.

19 = 100 (see Alpha-Bet Map of Hebrew). Laughter is first recorded in the Word (Bible) when Avraham (Abram=Father/Lord is exalted, Abraham=the father of many nations Gen 17:4, 5) has a son in his old age, of which he was 100 when his son Yitschaq (Isaac=will laugh, laughs) was born (Gen 18:12; 21:5). To have life from death, moving from darkness to light, results in laughter; so, laughter was brought forth after Avraham's son was born to give life to his family, which was seen as dead with no child of his own (Gen 21:6, 7). Yitschaq fulfills his name once more when he carried death (wood for burnt offering) up mount Moriyyah (Moriah) and then was bound to it to be sacrificed; he was considered as dead only to be raised to life by the Lord through a substitute ram bound to his cross (ram caught in thicket) (Gen 22:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14). This points to Yeshua carrying the Cross up mount Moriyyah to be crucified to death as the sacrificial Ram to be raised to life to give life everlasting through the blood to those who believe in him (Heb 13:11, 12, 13). Praise be to the Lord of Avraham, Yitschaq, & Ya'aqov. The Lord is exalted (Abram), the Father of many nations (Abraham) laughs (Isaac) at the Deceiver (Ya'aqov/Jacob Gen 27:36) and the Lord prevails (Yisra'el, Gen 32:28).

In the last month of the yearly cycle, when darkness is decreasing to increasing light, a feast of joy and laughter occurs to celebrate when the children of Yisra'el moved from death to life (Esther, Purim). Quph can refer to the comical monkey (all the kinds: ape, monkey, baboon, etc. named by Adam), which is the only animal that can smile and laugh like man. The journey from darkness to light ends at the neck & head (See TSadey) where laughter can be heard. Praise be to the Lord of Avraham, Yitschaq, & Ya'aqov, the great Lord of Host, who was and is and forever will be, amen and amen.