Gahon (Belly)

You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is unclean. Leviticus 11:42

Belly is the Hebrew word gahon which is pronounced gaw-khone'. 

gâchôn gaw-khone'

Probably from H1518; the external abdomen, belly (as the source of the foetus (compare H1521)): - belly.

גָּחוֹן

Gimel, hey, vav, final nun (sofit).

Torah scribes were (and are) meticulous with the words of the Torah. The ancient sages taught that even the letters of the Hebrew aleph bet carry the breath of God.  The Hebrew bible’s text has fascinating oddities that are lost when translated into any other language. There are letters that are reversed on purpose, enlarged, or made smaller.  Each has a fascinating and rich reason, most meanings are lost today however. One letter oddity is that there is an enlarged vav at the heart of (or the belly?) of the Torah. 

In the midpoint of a Torah scroll is the word “belly” (Hebrew gachon).  The letter vav in the word “belly (gaḥon)” (Leviticus 11:42) is the midpoint of the letters in a Torah scroll. The midpoint vav letter is enlarged in Torah scrolls.  There are precisely 152,402 letters before this vav and 152,402 letters after this vav.  Ancient scribes reading an ancient text found this out. The only way anyone would know this is to count all the letters of the Torah. I really like the attention and care that comes with that. Maybe we all should pay closer attention to the words, Amen?