Does anyone know anything about the numbering system in the bible?
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The letters are an abriviation of the Book.\nFirst number is the Chapter followed by a colon - :\nThen the verse numbers with a dash between them Gen 2:1-4; Genesis chapeter two, the first four verses. A verse can be part of or a whole sentence.\nIf you see an a,b, or c with the verse numbers, they have broken the verse into even smaller section.  This might be obvious when you look at the verse.\n\nIf the reference has a break you get a semi-colon - ;\nEx 2:2-6;11-15. They wish to exclude vs 7 to 10.\n\nOr accross a chapter a dash is used eg Lev3:14-4:25
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666 is the number of the antichrist, the end times figure who will arise with the purpose of opposing God and God's people.  666 is the gamatria of the name of the antichrist.  \n     In Greek and Hebrew there are no numeric characters.  There are only alpha characters.  For example, the letters a, b, c, d, e, f, etc. are alpha characters.  The numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, etc., are numeric characters.  They are different -- except for the letter "o" and the number "0".  When the Greeks wanted to write a number, they used letters for numbers.  The Greek letter "alpha" had the numeric equivalent of 1.  The next letter "beta" has the numeric equivalent of 2, and so on.  \n\n     Therefore, whenever a word in Greek is written, because the letters are also numbers, every word has a numeric value.  This numeric value is called a gematria.  The Greek word for Jesus (IhsouV) has a mathematical equivalent of 888.  Also, the Greek word for fish is 1224.  \n     What the Bible is saying is that the future antichrist will have a name that when it is written in Greek, its numeric equivalent will be 666.
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the words for the numbers 1 through 19 are among the oldest words in the language. The rules for numeration had not been made when the words were invented. You will find that in most languages at least the lower "teen" numbers, 11, 12, 13, 14 and even 15 have special words to describe them. Some languages have special words for up to 20. This is because in earlier times, counting only went up to a certain number and after that, the amount was considered "many" or "countless." It didn't matter much if there were 45 deer or 62 to hunt, because just one would feed the tribe that night. But it might matter if there were 7 lions or 14 to avoid, so those numbers were invented.\nThese examples I just made up; they aren't definitive, but I think you can see how they may illustrate what probably happened.
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Actually nobody believes that “the number of the beast” is 666 any longer. \n-There was a discovery of a piece of parchment that is now the earliest record of Revelations (in Greek) that clearly reads 616. \n-This was a game commonly played at the time (we know this 'cause there are lots of ancient carvings that say things like "I love the woman whose name is 457" stuff like that) So you would assign the letters in a persons name different number values and then take a persons name and add up the numbers and you get a sum. In this case 616 likely refers to the Emperor who was promoting blasphemous idol worship of himself. And the writer of Revalations was trying to make the point about how evil this was and that the only one to be worshiped is "the one true God". And this using numbers was a way of talking about someone without using their actual name and so only those in the know would understand and you could get away with calling the emperor a jerk and not get put in jail or hung or worse…
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Many people believe Psalms 118:8 to be the middle verse of the Bible. This is perpetuated in large part by an e-mail chain letter of Bible facts, which tries to illustrate the recurrence of the number 1188 in the Bible. It is perhaps fitting that the verse in question talks about trusting God over man. Analysis done on a modern computer has yielded a different result.\n\nUsing Microsoft Word 2000, (which resulted in a total verse count of 31,102 for the King James Version), the middle verses are Psalm 103, verses 1 and 2. (There is no middle verse, since there is an even numbered total verse count). There are 15,550 verses before and after these verses. Some verse counts in the past (probably counted by hand), have resulted in an incorrect verse count of 31,175, leading to Psalm 118:8 as the middle verse.\n\nThis also would be open to further analysis, i.e. the recognized Sacred Scriptures by the Catholic Church.
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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Number Deuteronomy, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, Daniel, Psalms, Ezra, Job, Songs of Solomon, Jonah, Ezekiel, ... that's all I can remember off the top of my head.  39 though in total.
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i am wiccan and i wont give a wiccan website but i will say this all modern known numerologies today have theyre start in the original numerology of the hebrew letters. there happen to be 22 hebrew letters! as anyone who knows hebrew will tell you that their letters are also their numbers. their math was done using the letters no seperate symbols exsisted for numbers. there are also 22 major arcana cards (spirit suit) in a deck of tarot cards. and for research and resources i would suggest a look into the system that is known for hebrew mystic work. numerology and all of it can be found in (kabbalah, qabala, cabala) the kabbalah study known as gematria.\n\nps i cant contact you from here because you didnt verify your email address with yahoo answers yet. i will try your other one you mentioned in your email to me.
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666 as a name or word\n\nAnother interpretation is that 666 is actually some kind of code based on the letters of someone's name or a word. This sparks great public interest since it seems to provide some way to identify the Antichrist. Numerologists like to devise clever ways of assigning numbers to letters so that the letters of a name will add up to this symbolic number. Probably the best-known scheme has A=100, B=101, and so on. With this code, the name "HITLER" adds up to 666. Another commonly cited example is President Ronald Wilson Reagan, where counting the letters of his first, middle, and last name lead to 666. While these ideas are intriguing, they usually require many specific preconditions, like having to start with 100, numbering the surname only, etc. (even though in the former case, you can also number a=1, b=2, and so on and decode his initials 'A' and 'H' as 18, which of course equals 6+6+6.) By adapting the rules however, it is possible to connect most if not all names to the evil number. See also Vicarius Filii Dei. More convincing interpretations invoke more than mathematics to prove their point.\n\n    * For example, scholars who believe the Book of Revelation refers to real people and events argue that the number represents the value of Nero or Neron Caesar (נרון קסר, Nrwn Qsr*, pronounced "Neron Qesar") in Hebrew letters, which also have numerical values under the form of numerology called Gematria (note that Hebrew is written from right to left):
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Scott, I do agree with you.  However, I do find things like this to be very interesting, and it is amazing to find how some things do relate to each other symbolically.  I'm not entirely sure of the accuracy of these, but I think that they are correct.  \n\n1=God, begining, source, unity, first.\n2=number of witness (in the mouth of two or more witnesses), friendship\n3=Godhead, trinity, divine completness, perfect testimony\n4=number of earth, creation, world, four gospels, four winds, four seasons, four corners of the earth.  \n5=grace, atonement(this is probably the meaning you were referencing), life, the cross, five-fold ministeries. \n6=number of man, beast, satan, idol.\n7=perfectio, completness, number of book of Revelation, finished, day of rest, (used 600 times in the Bible)\n8=resurrection, new beginings, put on new man.\n9=harvest, ministry, fullness, friutfullness, number of gifts of the Holy Spirit(maybe that are mentioned???), number of birthing(baby born in 9 months).\n10=number of law, order, government, restoration, antichrist kingdom, trial, testing, responsibiblity, tithe\n11=incompletness, disorganization, disintegration, disorder, lawlessness, need for apostolic fullness (11 apostles after Judas hanged himself).\n12=divine government, apostolic fullness.\n13=rebellion/backsliding, apostacy\n14=passover\n15=spiritual order\n16=free spirit, without bounderies, without limitation, without law therefore without sin ROMANS 4:15, salvation.\n17=spiritual void\n18=put on jugdment, destruction, captivity, overcome put on spririt of Christ (Judges 10:7-8, Luke 13:4, 3:11, 16)\n19=barren, repentant, ashamed, selflessness, without self rightousness (2 Samuel 2:30, Romans 6:21).\n20= can either mean holy, tried and approved or unholy and found wanting.\n24=priestly courses, govermental perfection\n30=consecration, maturity for ministry(I would guess this is because Jesus began His ministry at age 30)\n40=probation, testing, ending in victory or defeat.\n50=number of pentecost, liberty, freedom, jubilee.\n70=prior to increase of representive of a multitude.\n75=number of separation, cleansing, purification.\n100=fullness, full measure, full recompense, full reward, ect. (Genesis 26:12, Mark :10:30)\n120=end of all flesh, beginning of life in the Spirit.\n124=number of God's ultimate in creation and redemption.\n163=number of God's electm revival, ingathering, harvest.\n300=number of faithful remnant.\n666=antichrist, satan, beast.\n1000=maturity, full stature (Isaiah 17:33,5, Ephesians 4:13)\n\nThese are the numbers that I know of, I'm not sure of the valitidy of all of them, but I hope this helps!  These are fun to look at tho, even tho they aren't the whole purpose of the Bible, keep that in mind.  But is IS interesting to see how things weave together, and it is another proof that the Bible was inspired by God, not randomly written by a bunch of different men.  \n\n2 Timothy 3:16\n\n  All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training is righteousness.\n\n\nGod bless!!
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I DID NOT FIND ONE [SOME YEARS AGO], SO HERE IS MINE AS THIS KIND OF INFORMATION AND BIBLE TIME LINE IS WHAT I HAVE TO KNOW AS I DO BELIEVE THE AUTHORS [GOD AND JESUS], OF THE BIBLE KNOWS IT ALL AND CAN GIVE US WHAT HE WANTS US TO KNOW.\n\n01. Enoch born 622 after Adam lived 365 years died 987 and Adam had died in 930.\n02. Noah born 1056 after Adam lived 600 = 1656 to come through flood and 350 after the flood to 2006 after Adam.\nGen.7:6; 9:28,29;\n03. Shem born 1558, age 100 two years after the flood lived another 500 years to die  2158 after Adam and 25 years to: 04. Abraham born 2008 dies age 175 in 2183 after Adam.\nGen.25:7;\n05. Isaac born 2108 died age 180 in 2288 after Adam.\nGen.35:28,29;\n05. Jacob born when Isaac is age 60 in 2168 is age 147 at death after 17 years in Egypt where Son Joseph at his death is age 57. Gen.47:9,28;\n06. Joseph born when Jacob is age 90 in 2258 is age 110 at death in Gen.50:26; this ends the book of Genesis.\n07. Job born 2293 is age 140 at death and age 75 to 140 after death of Joseph to be the most upright man on earth.\nJob 2:1-4; he died the year Moses is born.\n08. Moses 2433-40-2473-40-2513 Exodus and 2553 dies at age\n120 Deut.34:7,10;\n09. Deborah [and all the judges down to Samuel, Saul and]:\n10. Samuel born 2883 after Adam, dies at age 100 = 2983.\n11. David born 2959 after Adam died at age 70 = 3029.\n12. Solomon is king 4th year 480th year after death of Moses\nhe begans the temple 1KI.6:1; in the year 3033 + 36 years to his death in 3069. He was born when David was age 41 in the year 3000 after Adam, he died at age 69 = 3069.\n3069 + 391 years of Judah kings and 19 prophets:\n3069 + {17-3-41-23-8-1-6-40-29-52-16-16-29-55-2-31-11-11=]\n391 = 3460 after Adam and 606 years to Jesus in Rome #6.\n\n3460 to 40. Daniel, 41. Jeremiah and 42. Ezekiel and the\nwhole Promised Land is captive to Babylon #3 Empire to Jesus\nwill come as Daniel 9:24-27; tells Matt.4:1-11[Satan and Jesus];\nRevelations 17:1-6,10-14[ #1 to #6 Satan's world that Jesus came into in #6 and John was on Patmos to write Revelations\nin #6, we will get the bible near the end of #7, we did and\nRev.12:6-7-11,12[Dan.12:1-13; Matt.24:3,14,15]; begans in the 8th where Jesus second coming will be].\n\nAfter Daniel 3460 + 70 = 3530 to Cyrus in #4 as told by Isaiah 44:28; 45:1; about 3352 after Adam. Isaiah was in Assyria #2 of Rev.17:1-14[Satan's world of Empires];\n\nEzra, Nehemiah, Mordecia, Haggai, Zechariah are after Daniel to about 450 years before Jesus and Jerusalem and the temple are rebuilt. Matt.1:1-17; After Cyrus in #4 and the others, Greece will be #5 and 14 generations are from Babylon #3 to Jesus in Rome #6.\n\nI hope this will help you pull your info together on the prophets.
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The number of the Beast from the Apocalypse of John, commonly known as the "Book of Revelation". One explanation is that 666 is a code name which alludes to the Roman emperor Domitian, who brutally persecuted Christians during his reign. According to this theory, the Christians referred to their oppressor as "Nero reborn". "Nero Caesar" in Greek is "Neron Kaisar". Hoping to keep the full import of the document hidden from the authorities, the author of the Apocalypse translated this title into Hebrew, then added up the numeric value each Hebrew letter represented for a total of six hundred and sixty-six.
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66 books from Gen. to Reve.\n39 books are the Hebrew Scriptures (OT)\n\nGod is the author/ and it shows about 40 different human secretaries or scribes. God's finger began the writing by craving out the ten commandments on stone tablets.\n All types of men were used -shepherd, farmer,tent maker,fisherman,tax collector,physician,priest,prophet,king and so on.\n it has one basic theme from beginning to end and very connected even though written \nages apart.\n Copyists have preserved it for centuries. On finding the Dead Sea Scrolls other than some wording little has been changed the meaning was still correct.\n\nThe so called lost books (book of Judah and such) are not part of cannon as all the other books harmonized with each other from beginning to end-these did not. Remember even in Jesus day others wrote to dispute his teachings.
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Here is a site that shows it pretty easily:\n\nhttp://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_One/Aleph-Bet/aleph-bet.html\n\nthe numbers above the letters are it.
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The verse from the Bible that refers to 666 is   "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six." (Rev 13:18).  \n\nIt is in reference to the first beast in Revelation 13.  In the Bible, a beast represents a nation, kingdom or empire.  But since this verse says that it "is the number of a man", it it talking about the leader of that nation. \n\nThe best way to truly identify the nation and its leader is to study the characteristics of that first beast and history.  This beast is also the same as the "little horn" mentioned in Daniel chapter 7.  (Daniel and Revelation are very closely related and will help you to gain a better understanding if studied together.)\n\nThe early protestant reformers believed that the beast represents the Vatican (which is a nation) and the leader is the Pope.  \n\nAn interesting note is that the official title of the Pope is "Vicarius Filii Dei" (Vicar of the Son of God).  When his title is converted into roman numerals and the numerical values are added, the total comes to 666.  This happens also when the Pope's official title is converted into the other languages that assign numerical values for the characters of the alphabet; Greek and Hebrew are the other languages that do this, and in each one, the total is 666. \n\nIs this a mere coincidence or were the early protestant reformers right?  (Another note; they were called "Protestants because they were protesting against the cruelties, corruptions and abuses of the Roman Catholic Church.)\n\nAnother point about this mark, is that it most likely will not be a visible mark on the skin, even though the Bible  mentions that it wwill be on the hand or on the forehead.  The mark is received as a matter of worship. (See Revelation 13:15 and Revelation 14:9, 10.)  \n\nWe can see the political swing toward more conservative views, and there are some that believe that this swing will lead to a law in which the people of this country and the world will beforced to go to church, and if you don't then you will be prohibited from conducting business and will eventually be killed.  (The Bible has an example of this in Daniel chapter 2.)\n\nThe best advise that I can give is to study the Bible carefully.  There are many people, even ministers, who will try to tell you what it means, but the explanations often go against the simple words of the Bible; don't believe these people.
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I love it all, especially the math.\n\nAdam 130, Adam age 130 = 3936 Plus 130 = 4066 Created BCE. \nSeth 105, Adam age 235 = 3831 BCE. \nEnos 90, Adam age 325 = 3741 BCE. \nCainan 70, Adam age 395 = 3671 BCE. \nMahalaleel 65, Adam age 460 = 3606 BCE. \nJared 165, Adam age 622 = 3444 BCE. \nEnoch 65, Adam age 687 = 3379 BCE. \nMethusaleh 187, Adam age 874 = 3192 BCE. \nLamech 56, Adam dies. 930 = 3136 BCE. \nLamech 126, Noah born 1056 = 3010 BCE. \nNoah 600, Flood 1656 = 2410 BCE.\nShem 2, Noah 602, 1658 = 2408 BCE.\nArphaxad 35, Noah 637, 1693 = 2373 BCE.\nSalah 30, Noah 667, 1723 = 2343 BCE.\nEber 34, Noah 701, 1757 = 2309 BCE.\nPeleg 30, Noah 731, 1787 = 2279 BCE.\nRue 32, Noah 763, 1819 = 2249 BCE.\nSerug 30, Noah 793, 1849 = 2217 BCE.\nNahor 29, Noah 822, 1878 = 2188 BCE.\nTerah 128, Noah 950 = 2006. = 2060 BCE. \nTerah 2, Abraham, 2008 = 2058 BCE.\nAbraham 100, Isaac, 2108 = 1958 BCE.\nIsaac 60, Jacob, 2168 = 1898 BCE.\nJacob 90, Joseph 2258 = 1808 BCE.\nJoseph 110, dies. 2368 = 1698 BCE.\nJob age 75 + 65, dies. 2433 = 1633 BCE.\nMoses 120, dies. 2553 = 1513 BCE.\n1Ki.6:1; 480, Temple. 3033 = \nSolomon 36, dies. 3069 = 1033 BCE = 3069 = 997 BCE.\nJudah kings 391, Babylon. 3460 = 606 BCE.\nProphecy = 2520 Rev.12:7-12 5980 = 1914 after Christ.\n\nRev.9:1-5[3x 50 =] 150 = 6130 = 2064 after Christ.\nDan.12:12[2x 1335 = 2670]; [2670 less 2520 = 150]; \nDan.4:16,23,25,32[7 x 360]; Dan.7:25[2500 God’s time]; \nDan.8:12-14[2300 God’s time]; Dan.12:1-13; Rev.12:7-12; \nRev.12:1-7[2500], 8-10[2520]; Dan.12:11[2x 1290 = 2580];\n[2680 less 2520 = 60 years]; \nRev.20:1-6; Christ reign = 1000 Year 7130 after Adam all perfect.
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The reference of the numbers you are querying here are not much important except that the context in which they were used was to suggest an idea.  This same idea is that God is perfect and the man of sin is not whosoever he be. He may be very close in appearance but can never attain it.  To make the point God used the numbers here in question. Christian scriptures note that God's perfect number  is 7.  No matter how many times you repeat 6 it never really gets to seven. thats all.
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Below is a list of ALL the biblical passages that mention "21" or "21st".    But I'll state upfront that there is nothing in the context of any of these to suggest a 'special meaning' for this number.   Nor does any passage of Scripture teach us that we should expect every number or any given number we find to have a special symbolic meaning.  \n\nNow it is true that there are a handful of numbers which have special significance --mostly in very general ways -- but Scripture's own use of them (sometimes very explicitly pointing to their significance) is the basis for our saying they have special meaning.\n\nHere is a brief list of most of the numbers that commonly have some special significance  (Often the text makes that significance very clear.  In other cases they were ordinary forms of expression in the culture, as for example, the 'round numbers').  Note too that usage varies.  Not all these special uses are "symbolic."   Nor is there is any reason for thinking that EVERY time there is three of something it has one and the same significance (symbolic or otherwise), or even that every instance of the number three MUST have a symbolic meaning at all!  Rather, we must look at other evidence in the context to see how the writer is using it.\n\n1 - obviously can sometimes be used to emphasize that something is solitary/alone, one-of-a-kind ('only'), unified\n2 - may be used for contrast but also for a complementary pair; also to add assurance, as in the case of 'two witnesses' (required by the law to establish certain matters)\n3 (many stories are patterned in threes, curses may come in threes, lessons may be tripled for emphasis; also a 'three-day' journey may be a round number for 'a few days')\n4 (when connected with the 'four winds', i.e., directions or 'all sides')\n5 (possibly just a small 'round number', used for 'a handful') \n7 and 10 (often to signify a complete number)\n8 (in DATES, the 8th day is the same day of the week as the first, this may explain why circumcision is on the 8th day, since it parallels the first day, that of birth, it may be suggesting the idea of a NEW life/birth to God)\n12 (esp. associated with tribes of Israel, people of God)\n30 -with age: mature (specific applications to priests, a few individuals, such as Joseph, Jesus)\n30, 50 -common mid-sized groups of people (e.g., David's special guard known as "the Thirty"; small military units are often divided into 50s)\n40 (esp.'days' for a period of testing,  and years as a round number for 'a generation', i.e., the time between one generation of people and the next)\n70 (sometimes functions similarly to 7 for fullness; 70 sons = a large,full family; a whole nation [thus Israel has 70 elders];  70 years used for a full life-span)\n100 & 1,000 - large 'round numbers' (may be used for fullness; 1,000 may, at least in Revelation, esp. be used for to suggest the fullness of heaven)\n\nSometimes, esp. in prophetic visions, some of these numbers or multiples of them may have special significance (e.g., 144,000 = square of 12 [people of God] x 1,000 [completeness/heavenly number?]; and '666' which is related to the 6th day, on which man was created [and possibly on falling short of '7', a number of completeness])\n\nBut note that in general there are NOT a bunch of esoteric meanings here -- nothing about abstract concepts of personality characteristics, or things far removed from the text (that you might never have guessed!)-- and when there ARE unusual meanings (e.g., '666', 144,000) the context does something to point that out.\n\nAs for those lists you see, suggesting a special abstract meaning for each number (as someone has already cut-and-pasted above), these have precious little Scriptural justification.  They are often the result of someone counting the number of item