Editing List of numbers with possible significance

When a word or phrase is given with no explanation, the number is the (Hebrew) [[gematria]] or (Greek) [[isopsephy]] value of that word.

1 = Hear, O Israel: YWHW our God, YWHW is one.

2 = Minimum number of witnesses to establish a legal case

3 = Divine perfection (one of four "perfect" numbers: 3, 7, 10, 12)

3.5 = Half of seven is important in Dan 7:25, 12:7, 1 Kgs. 18:1; Luke 4:25; Jas. 5:17 (Cmp. Rev 11:6), Rev 11:9,11; 12:14

4 = Corners/directions (world, altar, winds); Triangular root of 10

5 = Books in Torah

6 = Triangular expansion of 3

7 = Spiritual perfection (one of four "perfect" numbers: 3, 7, 10, 12); Days of creation; Egypt's years of plenty/famine; Years Jacob worked for each wife

8 = Triangular root of 36

10 = Triangular expansion of 4; Ordinal perfection (one of four "perfect" numbers: 3, 7, 10, 12); Commandments/words at Sinai; Plagues on Egypt; Virgins in parable; Days of Smyrna testing; Days of Daniel fast testing; generations in genealogies from creation to flood and flood to Abraham; human universality; clauses in the Lord’s Prayer; Tithes (tenths) representing complete recognition of God’s claims; trials of Abraham’s faith; Ten people in the Bible who said “I have sinned”, demonstrating the widespread nature of human sin; the "full round" of anything; used as a multiplier with other numbers to emphasize or escalate their sense of bigness: e.g. 12*12*10^3

12 = זה (see Feder<ref name=Feder/> 9b); Governmental perfection (one of four "perfect" numbers: 3, 7, 10, 12)

14 = David (Heb); Years Jacob worked to earn his wives

15 = Triangular expansion of 5 and triangular root of 120

17 = Triangular root of 153; Joseph's age when he dreamt

21 = Triangular expansion of 6; Days of Daniel's fast

24 = Books in Tanakh

25 = κε (standard form and abbrev for κύριε=535, which see)

26 = YHVH (also يهوه)

27 = Books in New Testament<ref>Almost all branches agree. See 35 for Ethiopian exception.</ref>

28 = Triangular expansion of 7; Number of Babylonian merchandise items in Rev 18:12-13 (see Beale); Generations from Abraham to the deportation to Babylon; Years of Jehu's reign; 28:42::666:1260 (Harris<ref name=FRGexpanded>Harris, Zachary. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1butkjkck8vhx2s-6qRB-V_g6V8KTFAfL Unpublished expanded and updated version] of "Forward and Reverse Gematria."</ref>)

30 = יהיה hence default period of Nazirite<ref name=Feder>Rabbi Elie Feder. Gematria Refigured, Mosaica Press, 2022.</ref>

34 = בבל (Babel)

35 = Books in Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

36 = Triangular expansion of 8 and triangular root of 666

40 = Years of wilderness wandering; Jesus in desert; ... etc.!

42 = "Great" (גדלה) Gen 10:12; אלוה ("god", Dan 11:38); 14x3 generations (Mt 1); 42 Months = 3.5 years (Rev 11-13); See also 3.5

51 = Na ("please")<ref name=Feder/>; Books in Tanakh + New Testament

52 = "Son" (anagram of standard form) and "with everything" (Genesis 24:1) see Feder<ref name=Feder/> chp 1; Gematria of Elijah (Heb); Years of Uzziah's reign (2 Chron 26:3); בְּהֵמָ֔ה

58 = Noah/grace [anagrams of standard form]

59 = Havilah

60 = Trapezoidal block of pebble diagram<ref name=FRGexpanded/>; 60x60 temple plans (Ezra 6:3, see also 3600)

62 = Age of Darius (Dan 5:31)<ref name=Bejon/>

66 = Value of "Allah" in standard Abjad; בֶּן־דָּוִ֔ד; Books in Protestant Bible

70 = ὁ (Greek nom sg definite article, can be added to some of the titles listed here); elders of Israel; nations in Gen 10; disciples sent out in Luke 10:1-12 [or 72]

72 = Disciples sent out in Luke 10:1-12 [or 70]

77 = Gihon (Gen 4:24)

83 = Age of Aaron when confronting Pharaoh

86 = Elohim

88 = Age of Moses when confronting Pharaoh (Ex 6)

91 = Mene, מלכא, and האלהים along with several other connections to Daniel 5<ref name ="Bejon">James Bejon, Belshazzar’s Riddle (Part II), https://jamesbejon.substack.com/p/belshazzars-riddle-part-ii</ref>

99 = Amen (grk); Number of sheep shepherd leaves behind to search for one lost; See footnote 57 in Blumall<ref name="Blumell"/> regarding Irenaeus and the "Marcosians" on this number's isopsephies

110 = Years of Joseph

120 = למלך (to the king OR to Molech in 1 Kings) and Solomon's gold (1 Kings 9:14; 10:10; 2 Chr 9:9); limit on man's lifespan (Gen 6:3, cf. Deut 31:2; 34:7); years of Moses; Darius' satraps (Dan 6:1); disciples in upper room; triangular expansion of 15

123 = Goliath (LXX)

125 = מסכה (see Feder<ref name=Feder/> chp 9a)

127 = Years of Sarah and provinces of Eshter (this connection is famously addressed by Rabbi Akiva(?) as per AlephBeta video; see also Targum Rishon on Esther

130 = Age of Jacob when he went to Egypt; חִזְקִיָּ֬ה, and the sayings attributed to Hezekiah’s men in Prov 25–29 number about 130 (cmp. 375)<ref name=Hubbard>Hubbard, D. A. “Proverbs, Book Of.” The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised, edited by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, vol. 3, Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979–1988, p. 1016.</ref>

133 = Years of Kohath (Moses' Gpa)

137 = Years of Levi and Amram (Moses' dad)

142 = Tigris

144 = Width in cubits of New Jerusalem's walls; See also 144000

147 = Years of Jacob

153 = Triangular expansion of 17; Number of fish (John 21:11); μέρη (John 21:6); חלקיה (Hilkiah, but see also 666); ANTICHRISTVS (but see 154)

154 = Liber Genealogus' claimed value of ANTICHRISTVS (= 616/4)

165 = The Tree/Money (see Feder<ref name=Feder/> chp 7 on Esther); Naamah (Heb) - the only wife of Solomon who is named in Scripture (see also "the silver" in 1 Kings 10:27) and also sister of Tubal-Cain (Gen 4:22)

182 = "Mene, Mene"; Yakov (Heb.)

191 = ﺲﻠﻴﻣﺎﻧ in standard Abjad

208 = ורב (see Feder<ref name=Feder/> chp 8)

212 = Number of gatekeepers in 1 Chronicles 9:22 (4*53 seems to correspond with vs 24-26; four leaders for each week of the year)

247 = θηρίον "beast" (Painchaud<ref name=Painchaud>Painchaud, Louis. "The Dragon, the Beasts, and the Gold: The Number of the Beast in the Apocalypse of John," in '"Who is Sitting on Which Beast?" Interpretative Issues in the Book of Revelation', Lupieri, Edmondo and Louis Painchaud, eds., Brepols Publishers, 2023</ref>)

248 = Abram (see Feder<ref name=Feder/> chp 11); 613-365 = number of positive "do" mitzvot = number of bones in human body (Rabbi Simlai)

276 = Persons on wrecked ship (Acts 27:37); Triangular expansion of 23

288 = Singers (1 Chron 25:7); Gematria of Uzziah (LXX)

294 = קוסטנטין (as Ibn Ezra on Dan 11:36)

314 = Shaddai [anagram of standard form] and Metatron (Talmud) see Feder<ref name=Feder/> chp 12

318 = Number of Abram's servants in Genesis 14:14 and gematria of “Eliezer” in 15:2

345 = מֹשֶׁ֛ה

350 = פרסי and קרן<ref name=Bejon/>

351 = Γαλατεία (graffito)

365 = 613-248 = number of negative "do not" mitzvot; days in a solar year

374 = כשדים

375 = שלמה; said to match the number of Proverbs of Solomon, Prov 10:1–22:16 (cmp. 130)<ref name=Hubbard/>

380 = Egypt (Heb)

385 = Σόδομα, (מצרימה) to Egypt

390 = Days "equal to the number of the years of their punishment" (Eze 4:5)

392 = "All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were 392" (Ezra 2:58; Nehemiah 7:60)

400 = Value of the letter ת which is the "mark" in Ezek 9:4,6; Virgins of Jabesh-gilead taken at Shiloh to repopulate Benjamin; Prophets of Asherah (1 Kings 18:19)

401 = Aleph Tav (cmp. 801)

406 = תָּ֜ו (see 400)

417 = Gematria of בתיה (Bithia = Batya = Pharaoh's daughter) in 1 Chron 4:17

420 = שלמן (Hos 10:14; see also pebble diagram<ref name=FRGexpanded/>); Amount of Solomon's gold (1 Kings 9:28); ממצרים (1 Kings 8:16,51,53; 10:28–29)

422 = Nebuchadnezzar (Heb)

430 = Years of Israel in Egypt (Ex 12:40-41, Gal 3:17); Years Eber lived after fathering Peleg (Gen 11:17); Rameses (Gen 47:11, Ex 12:37)

431 = ﺲﻠﻴﻣﺎﻧ in Maghribi Abjad

443 = Goliath (Heb)

446 = Pishon

450 = Talents of gold (2 Chron 8:18) and prophets of Baal (1 Kings 18:19,22)

451 = Isopsephy of Nicolaus (as in Nicolatians)

460 = קֹ֖דֶשׁ לַֽיהוָֽה

475 = ᾅδης (Mt 18:18; gen. Hades)

480 = Nebuchadnezzar + Noah (Heb); Years from exodus to beginning of Temple construction (1 Kings 6:1)

485 = γυναίκα (Rev 2:20; [12:13;] 17:3, 6; [21:9,27] = βδελυγμα = πολις η μεγαλη (Gen 10:12; Rev 16:19; 17:[5, in pl!], 18; 18:10, 16, 19) = Ἰούδα (Judas/Lk 22:48; Judah/Rev 5:5); "To Succoth" (place in Gen 33:17, Ex 12:37, etc.)

486 = "Succoth" (place in Gen 33:17)

486 = πέτρᾳ (Mt 18:18)

520 = דָּרְיָוֶשׁ and כֹּרֶשׁ<ref name=Bejon/>

521 = Ἀλέξανδρος

525 = יהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת

526 = כּ֫וֹרֶשׁ

535 = κύριε ("Christians also associated the number 535 [along with 800] with Lord, but in the vocative form"<ref name=Blumell>Blumell and Wayment, The 'Number of the Beast,' in Kraus and Sommer, eds., Book of Seven Seals</ref>); standard form is φλε hence shorthand for κύριε as above (see also φίλε [545] in Harris<ref name=FRGexpanded/>, see also φιλάνθρωπε=1585); קֹהֶ֣לֶת

545 = Pompeii graffito:<ref name=FRGexpanded/>: Μπεκυ ("Pompei Becky"), παρθενικός, γυναικιαν, φίλε

586 = Jerusalem (Heb)

597 = θηρίου "of [the] beast"<ref name=Painchaud/>

600 = ציצת with 8 (knots) and 5 (strings) comes to 613<ref name=Feder/>; trapezoidal block of pebble diagram<ref name=FRGexpanded/>; Six 600's associated with Solomon as per triangle in pebble diagram<ref name=FRGexpanded/>: 1 Kings 10:14, 16; 2 Chron 2:2, 17; 9:13, 15; Six 600's of David: 1 Sam 23:13; 27:2; 30:9; 1 Chron 7:2; 21:25; 2 Chron 2:17

606 = Ruth

611 = תורה

613 = Traditional number of mitzvot in Torah; Ruth (606) + 7 Noahide laws; Torah given to Moses (see 611) + 2 mitzvot given directly to all Israel; גרתי (see Feder<ref name=Feder/> 10a); 248+365 (see each); 600+8+5 (see 600 for explanation)

616 = [Standard form: χιϛ; תרי"ו (or תרט"ז)] "עתה יגדל-נא כח הי" and "Rehoboth" (Gen 26:22); נרו קסר; Anagrams of Heb standard form = [Jethro (also "and the rest/excellence" Gen 49:3/Deut 3:13, "let/leave" Ex 16:19, and "shall remain" Ex 29:34) or "they spied" (Num 13:21)]; תריו which sounds like θηρίου; χιϛ as abbreviation for Christ (Jesus) and/or rearranged to form Chi-Rho; Possible graffito answers: Φαίδρα, Οφέλια, Ασυδια, Μαρουδα, and Ρουδάμα; Γαιος Καισαρ; Καῖσαρ θεός

620 = Shinar

636 = Value of نيرو قيصر in Maghribi Abjad

638 = Θεοδόσιος

647 = Χαλδαία

665 = Appears in one manuscript of Rev 13:18; See also Harris pebble chart and analysis<ref name=FRGexpanded/>; "אֶרֶץ כַּשְׂדִּים"

666 = [Standard form: χξϛ;  תרס"ו;] Solomon's gold; Rev 13:18; Triangular expansion of 36; sons of Adonikam (Ezra 2:13, but also see 667); ἑλκύσαι (John 21:6); Χελκια (Hilkiah LXX, but see also 153); "עתה יגדל-נא כח אדני" (Num 14:17, see notes); DCLXVI; נרון קסר; Anagrams of standard form = ["Without" (Pr 11:22); "you should destroy" ("tarsu", cmp. Amos 6:11); Sethur; תסור (Deut 17:11)]; Mea Shearim; Irenaeus gives: Ευανθας, Λατεινος, Τειταν..., Μαομέτις; Counter-Reformers give: לולתר, ,Λουθερανα; Scripture has: הנהרות, הראיתים, הרימותה, והרתיהם, ויתרן, ולמקצת, ולפרשים, ולשלש, ולשעירים, ומשנער, וסרת, וסתר, וצעקת, ורמתך, ותמכר, ותסר, יתפלצון, יתרון, לעצמותיך, לשלוש, מיתריו, מנפצות, נחרבות, נפוצתם, נפצותם, סתור, סתרו, ענקתמו, צעקתו, רמותך, תורין, תחגרנה, תמכרו, תסור, תסרו, תצעקו, תראינה, απολλυμεθα, διασπορας, δυνασαι, ειχαν, εκελευσα, ελκυσαι, εντολαις, εποτισα, ευπορια, ηγνικοτες, κατεπεσεν, λευκαις, πεντακις, πλευραν, σκαπτειν, συναγαγη, τερασιν, and τετελεκα; while the Septuagint further adds: απειρου, απεκυλιον, αποστει, αφειλον, δραμουμαι, δρασαντι, ειλκυσα, εκζητειται, εκλυσαι, ενκατελιπομεν, ενπεσειται, εξαπατησαι, εξαπεστει, επαιρου, επαυριο, επτερνικαμεν, ετασμον, θαυμασει, καιομενου, κεραμικου, μετοικισαι, μισησης, νευσαι, οικουμενα, προειλατο, προσαγαγης, σκοτειναι, στειραν, Συήνη, and υπομειναι; Ιαπετός, (ירימות) Jerimoth, e.g. 2 Chron 11:18—an otherwise unknown “son of David!”), Βεέλτεθμος (Beltethmus, 1 Esdras 2:15/16), and Ἰαχεὶμ (Jachin, Gen 46:10); Value of نيرو قيصر in standard Abjad; תריון sounds like θηρίον (Painchaud 2023, citing Hadorn 1920); Κλαυδίας (Nelson 2025)

667 = Sons of Adonikam (Nehemiah 7:18, but also see 666)

676 = נרון קיסר

680 = Euphrates (see Aramaic Targum of Rishon Esther 1:4)

685 = Ἰούδας

686 = נירון קיסר and نيرون قيصر in Maghribi Abjad

699 = Isopsephy of Nicolatian

729 = Κηφᾶς; "וּלְקַדִּישֵׁ֥י עֶלְיוֹנִ֖ין יְבַלֵּ֑א"

731 = Ανθούσα (Smyrna graffito, as per Bagnall)

755 = Πέτρος (Mt 18:18)

765 = Adonikam (Heb)

770 = Μέγας Αλέξανδρος

790 = Κύρος

800 = κύριος = πίστις (cmp. 2 Thes 3:2-3 as noted by early Christians<ref name=Blumell/>)

801 = Alpha (and) Omega

810 = χις (with terminal sigma; cmp 616)

813 = Φλάβιος

840 = Αλέξανδρος ο Μέγας

852 = ונושנתם <ref name=Feder/>

855 = Noah (LXX/NT)

860 = χξς (with terminal sigma; cmp 666)

864 = Ἰερουσαλήμ (Rev); ἁγίων

888 = Ἰησοῦς

892 = Εὐσέβιος

926 = Adonikam (LXX), Ἰεροσόλυμα (1 Macc 1:20, John 12:12)

961 = גֹּאֲלֵנוּ יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת שְׁמוֹ (Isa 47:4)<ref name=Bejon/>

1000 = See Numbers 31:5 at 12000; κυρίου (e.g. 1 Kings 10:1)

1005 = Νέρων; number of Solomon's songs

1025 = Isopsephy of "ἑξακόσιοι ἑξήκοντα ἕξ"

1038 = Ευελπίστη (Symrna graffito)

1064 = Αἴγυπτος

1071 = Ιωναθας

1112 = "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin"

1118 = "Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin"

1120 = Ηρώδης

1121 = Ηρώδης Α΄

1132 = Κύριος Καῖσαρ

1178 = μυστήριον

1195 = Εὐστάθιος ("Constantine" equivalent meaning, not transliterated, into Greek)

1251 = Απφους

1256 = Ἁγίασμα κυρίου

1260 = Σολομων (NT)<ref name=FRG>Harris, Zachary. "[https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opth-2022-0245/pdf?licenseType=open-access Forward and Reverse Gematria are Very Different Beasts]." Open Theology 10.1 (2024). See also [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1butkjkck8vhx2s-6qRB-V_g6V8KTFAfL unpublished expanded and updated version].</ref>; "Rectangular" expansion of 36 (see Bauckham citation in Harris);  LCM of the first nine triangular numbers, viz. 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36 and 45 and multiple of a further three (105, 210 and 630) [Vernon Jenkins]; See also 3.5; Appears in the bounds of an elegant inequality for rational approximation of pi<ref>Dalzell, D. P. "On 22/7." Journal of the London Mathematical Society v 19, issue 75 Part 3 (1944), pp. 133–134, as summarized at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_22/7_exceeds_%CF%80#Quick_upper_and_lower_bounds</ref>

1264 = Ἐκκλησιαστοῦ

1269 = πιστὸς καὶ ἀληθινός

1285 = Βαβυλὼν

1301 = Αντίοχος

1305 = Αντίοχος Δ΄

1310 = ανθρωπος (Hooper's theory on Rev 13:18)

1337 = Νέρων Καῖσαρ

1341 = Νικολαϊτῶν

1367 = "τοῦ θηρίου"

1380 = Βαβυλὼν ἡ μεγάλη

1439 = Ηρώδης ο Μέγας

1440 = Ηρώδης Α΄ ο Μέγας

1514 = Αλέξανδρος Γ΄ ο Μακεδών

1530 = Σολομωνος

1585 = φιλάνθρωπε (see φλε at 535) — there may have been an inscription in an ancient Palestinian church that said "[φιλάνθρωπε μνήσθητι] | τοῦ Δούλου σοῦ"<ref name=Yonah>Avi-Yonah, M. Art in Ancient Palestine: Selected Studies. Edited by Hannah Katzenstein and Yoram Tsafrir, Magnes Press, 1981, p. 301.</ref>

1656 = Years from creation to flood as per Ussher's reading of the Hebrew (Masoretic) text

1688 = Κύριος Ἰησοῦς

1757 = Nebuchadnezzar (LXX)

1835 = Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριὼθ

1841 = ἀντίχριστος

1921 = Σαλωμων (LXX)

1946 = Βασιλεὺς βασιλέων

2006 = Ἐν Τούτῳ Νίκα

2013 = Σύγχυσις

2051 = Κωνσταντῖνος

2095 = "ὁ ἔχων νοῦν" (Rev 13:18) and σοφώτερον (1 Cor 1:25)!

2159 = Αντίοχος Δ΄ Επιφανής

2180= κύριος κυρίων

2188 = "Ναί, ἔρχομαι ταχύ"

2190 = ἄνθρωπος τῆς ἀνομίας

2239 = Gregorian year AD when 6000AM (seventh millennium of the world) begins

2252 = εἰκὼν τοῦ θηρίου

2300 = Dan 8:14; Number of balls in a 23-sided triangular pyramid (23*(23+1)*(23+2)/6)

2303 = Gematria value of "שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֛וֹת שִׁשִּׁ֥ים וָשֵׁ֖שׁ"

2315 = υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας

2334 = Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριώτης

2398 = ἔρχου κύριε Ἰησοῦ

2445 = ψευδοπροφήτης, Μωϋσέως

2463 = μυστήριον Βαβυλὼν (2463)

2558 = μυστήριον Βαβυλὼν ἡ μεγάλη

2612 = Nebuchadnezzar + Noah (LXX)

2641 = Κωνσταντινούπολις

2659 = ψευδόχριστος

2701 = Value of Gen 1:1; Triangular (73)

3000 = Number of Solomon's proverbs

3039 = "μνήσθητι τοῦ δούλου σου," a common liturgical and biblical prayer formula in Greek, especially in the Septuagint and Orthodox liturgy (see 535 and 1585)

3600 = Taskmasters Solomon appointed (2 Chronicles 2:2,18); six*600 message encoded in pebble triangle<ref name=FRGexpanded/>; 60x60 temple plans (Ezra 6:3)

3750 = Φλάβιος Οὐαλέριος Κωνσταντῖνος

4157 = Βασιλεὺς βασιλέων καὶ κύριος κυρίων

7000 = Did not bow knee to Baal (1 Kings 19; Rom 11); Army of Israel in times of Ahab (1 Kings 20:15) and Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 24:16); Killed in great earthquake (Rev 11:13)

12000 = Israeli troops who defeated Midian, 1000 from each tribe (Numbers 31:5); Fallen population of Ai (Josh 8:25); Israeli fighters against Jabesh-gilead (Judges 21:10); Ahithophel's proposal for troops to defeat David (2 Sam 17:1); Solomon's horsemen; Edomites Joab struck down in the valley of salt (Ps 60:title); Troops in each tribe of the Lamb's army; Dimensions in stadia of the cubic New Jerusalem (Rev 21:16)

14700 = Died in the grumbling plague of Num 16

144000 = Troops in Lamb's army; See also 144

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