What is the Hebrew word meaning 'So be it'?
So mote it be So mote it be "So mote it be" is a ritual phrase used by Freemasons, in Rosicrucianism, and more recently by Neopagans. It means "so may it be", "so it is required", or "so must it be", and may be said at the end of a prayer in a similar way to "amen". The phrase appears in the Halliwell or Regius Manuscript, the earliest known document relating to a society of Masons in England dating from the first half of the 15th Century. "Amen! amen! so mot hyt be! Say we so all per charyté". The phrase has been taken
Revival of the Hebrew language Hebrew words took on different meanings altogether. For example, the Hebrew word "kǝvīš" (כביש), which now denotes a "street" or a "road," is actually an Aramaic adjective meaning "trodden down; blazoned", rather than a common noun. It was originally used to describe "a "blazoned" trail." In what most rabbis view as an error, Ben-Yehuda is accredited with introducing the new Hebrew word "ribah" (ריבה) for "confiture; marmalade", believing it to be derived from the lexical root "reḇaḇ", and related to the Arabic word "murabba" (jam; fruit conserves; marmalade). He also invented the word "tapuz" (תפוז) for the citrus fruit orange,