Notarikon: words read as acronyms (AGLA) (Talmud and Kabbalah; Mackey 1874)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet provenCode: a stated code
Year: 1874
SUMMARYNotarikon: words read as acronyms (AGLA) (Talmud and Kabbalah; Mackey 1874) [Connections: Word coding & Masonic method, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDWikipedia defines notarikon as "a Talmudic method of interpreting Biblical words as acronyms." The name is "derived from the Latin word 'notarius' meaning 'shorthand writer'" (citing Steinmetz 2005 and Religion Past and Present). Mackey's entry "Agla" (p. 43) says: "One of the cabalistic names of God, which is composed of the initials of the words of the following sentence:" … "thou art mighty forever, O Lord." It adds that Kabbalists set it in the "interlacing triangles, which figure they called the Shield of David," used "as a talisman."
CODEThis is a documented acronym-name with its expansion stated: AGLA = Atah Gibor Le-olam Adonai
PATTERNHere the hidden meaning sits in the first letters of a sentence, and the source gives the expansion
LENS (WW9)An acronym reading counts as a receipt only when a text gives the full phrase it stands for. Otherwise it is a "backronym," which is Lens
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SOURCEWikipedia, "Notarikon"; Mackey 1874 full text (HathiTrust copy), p. 43.