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qoph

 (kôf)
n.
The 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

[Hebrew qôp, of Phoenician origin; akin to Hebrew qôp, ape; perhaps akin to Sanskrit kapiḥ, ape, or Egyptian g'f, type of small ape.]
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qoph

(kʊf; kɒf; Hebrew kɔf)
n
(Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) a variant of koph
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koph

or qoph

(kɔf)

n.
the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
[< Hebrew qōph]
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Noun1.qoph - the 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew script - a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino)
alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"
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For instance, the Latin A, which is derived from Aleph, also the Hebrew name for ox, if turned around, can be recognised as an image of a horned ox's head; the letter M still appears somewhat like the wavy image that, in the aleph-beth, represented mem, the Hebrew word for water; and the little tail in the letter Q marks it as a variant of qoph, which also means monkey.
La o tiene forma de ojo porque ese es su origen grafico y la antigua letra qoph significa 'mono', que es de donde viene la Q, un circulo con su cola...
One meaning of KARA in Hebrew is "happened." With a Qoph instead of a Kaph for the K-sound, KARA in Hebrew means "(he) called" or "(he) read".