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  • Indeed, if I could believe that Iturea were the same with Decapolis, then I would suppose the word ten might have been altered by the change of Shin into Thau, according to the Syriac manner: but I neither can believe that, nor have I ever met with such a change made in that word, but rather that it would go into Samech.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Samech among the Chaldeans? so that Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus might sound no more than the blind son of a blind father.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Amas, plays the Syrian in the first letter, and the Grecian in the last, ending the word in Samech for Cheth.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Bibles, the open section is indicated by the letter Pe in the vacant space preceding it, the closed section by the letter Samech.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Samech Nabil, consul-general for the Egyptian embassy in Israel, said it would be premature to comment on the planned rail link, given the project's preliminary nature.

    Reuters: Press Release 2012

  • Samech, and they had so strangely used themselves to it that they could not do otherwise, no, not to save their lives.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721

  • SAL - Samech - Alef - Lamed (Seter Ata Li) Techaneni Shefa Bracha Vehatzlacha

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2009

  • The reading should be peri shnt (Pe Resh Yod, Shin Noon fol lowed by gershayim Samech.

    Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906

  • (Resh Yod Samech Pe Qof)) [the side of a lady's chariot, called reitwage (?) in German, as is said in the chapter "The mother and her young": [111] If thou yokest the mule to the litter rispak (Resh Yod Samech Pe Qof) for me], Betar was destroyed.

    Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906

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