temurah

Japanese: temurah
temurah

For example, Amen AMN is an abbreviation of Adonai melekh namen (Lord and Faithful King). Another method of conversion is temurah, a kind of cryptography in which the alphabet is folded in half and new words are made by substituting the corresponding letters above and below.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "temurah" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…例えば〈アーメンAMN〉は〈Adonai melekh namen(主にして信仰深き王)〉の省略形だという。もう一つの転換法はテムラtemurahである。アルファベットを真ん中で折り返すように並べ,対応する上下の文字を置き換えて新しい言葉を作る一種の暗号法である。…

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