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 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

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)

30 = יהיה hence default period of Nazirite

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"); Books in Tanakh + New Testament

52 = "Son" (anagram of standard form) and "with everything" (Genesis 24:1) see 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; 60x60 temple plans (Ezra 6:3, see also 3600)

62 = Age of Darius (Dan 5:31)

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

99 = Amen (grk); Number of sheep shepherd leaves behind to search for one lost; See footnote 57 in Blumall 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 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)

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 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 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)

248 = Abram (see 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 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

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)

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); 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

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"); standard form is φλε hence shorthand for κύριε as above (see also φίλε [545] in Harris, see also φιλάνθρωπε=1585); קֹהֶ֣לֶת

545 = Pompeii graffito:: Μπεκυ ("Pompei Becky"), παρθενικός, γυναικιαν, φίλε

586 = Jerusalem (Heb)

597 = θηρίου "of [the] beast"

600 = ציצת with 8 (knots) and 5 (strings) comes to 613; trapezoidal block of pebble diagram; Six 600's associated with Solomon as per triangle in pebble diagram: 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 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; "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)

801 = Alpha (and) Omega

810 = χις (with terminal sigma; cmp 616)

813 = Φλάβιος

840 = Αλέξανδρος ο Μέγας

852 = ונושנתם

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)

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); "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

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"

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; 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