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Hebrew does not have a number system apart from the alphabet. Each letter is also a number. The first 22 letters are the alphabet. The last six are final form letters used when the associated letter is found at the end of a word. Though a final form letter sounds like a customary letter, it's metaphor is different, since the stroke which form the meaning are different. | Hebrew does not have a number system apart from the alphabet. Each letter is also a number. The first 22 letters are the alphabet. The last six are final form letters used when the associated letter is found at the end of a word. Though a final form letter sounds like a customary letter, it's metaphor is different, since the stroke which form the meaning are different. | ||
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Each letter not only has a symbol and a number, but it has a word which is it's name. The ''aleph'' has the symbol א and the name אלף. Since the name is a word, it also may have different meanings. ''Aleph'' אלף means 'one thousand'. Jesus and the apostles sometimes play with the name, such as "A day is like a thousand years." <ref> 2Pe 3:8 ¶ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.</ref> There are also references to the number of a name <ref>Re 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.</ref> The number of the name of a letter is derived by reading the letters in the name as numbers. ''Aleph'' would be 1+30+800. Not many references to these have been found yet <ref>This hermeneutic has only recently been discovered.</ref> | Each letter not only has a symbol and a number, but it has a word which is it's name. The ''aleph'' has the symbol א and the name אלף. Since the name is a word, it also may have different meanings. ''Aleph'' אלף means 'one thousand'. Jesus and the apostles sometimes play with the name, such as "A day is like a thousand years." <ref> 2Pe 3:8 ¶ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.</ref> There are also references to the number of a name <ref>Re 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.</ref> The number of the name of a letter is derived by reading the letters in the name as numbers. ''Aleph'' would be 1+30+800. Not many references to these have been found yet <ref>This hermeneutic has only recently been discovered.</ref> | ||
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Before God spoke and created the heavens and the earth, he did at least four things that we know of: He created an alphabet, he formed the letters into words, and he gave himself a name, and promised us eternal life [1]
Though many will wish to argue these points, there is no basis for an argument. If the alphabet was not formed by God, then we will be observing phenomena which occurred by chance. And argument is just a distraction from making the observations. If these things happened by chance, one must ask: at what point does the probability of it occurring by chance make it impossible?
If God created the alphabet, then even those who do not wish to learn Hebrew may wish to know why he created it.
The numbers
Hebrew does not have a number system apart from the alphabet. Each letter is also a number. The first 22 letters are the alphabet. The last six are final form letters used when the associated letter is found at the end of a word. Though a final form letter sounds like a customary letter, it's metaphor is different, since the stroke which form the meaning are different.
In the alphabet, the tov ת is the last letter. In the numbers, the final shin is the last number. It equals 1000, but there is no font character for the letter since it is never used in forming a word.
| א | ב | ג | ד | ה | ו | ז | ח | ט | י | כ | ל | מ | נ | ס | ע | פ | צ | ק | ר | ש | ת | ך | ם | ן | ף | ץ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | 1000 |
The names of the letters
Each letter not only has a symbol and a number, but it has a word which is it's name. The aleph has the symbol א and the name אלף. Since the name is a word, it also may have different meanings. Aleph אלף means 'one thousand'. Jesus and the apostles sometimes play with the name, such as "A day is like a thousand years." [2] There are also references to the number of a name [3] The number of the name of a letter is derived by reading the letters in the name as numbers. Aleph would be 1+30+800. Not many references to these have been found yet [4]
References
- ↑ . Tit 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world [aeons - time] began;
- ↑ 2Pe 3:8 ¶ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- ↑ Re 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
- ↑ This hermeneutic has only recently been discovered.
