Math of Scripture

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The recurrence of the number seven-or an exact multiple of seven- is found throughout the Bible and is widely recognized. The Sabbath on the seventh day, the seven years of plenty, and the seven years of famine in Egypt, the seven priests and seven trumpets marching around Jericho, The Sabbath year of the Land are well-known examples.

Also, Solomon’s building the Temple for seven years, Naaman’s washing in the river seven times, and the seven cHurches, seven seals, seven trumpets, seven bowls, seven stars, and so on in the Book of Revelation, seven Sacraments, all show the consistent use of the number seven.

If we look at the first 17 verses of the New Testament which deals with a single principal subject: the genealogy of Jesus Christ, It contains 72 Greek vocabulary words in these initial 17 versus. We find the following Heptadic structure throughout these original Greek versus.
#1. The number of words which are nouns is exactly 56, or 7 x 8.
#2. The Greek word “the” occurs most frequently in the passage: exactly 56 times, or 7 x 8.
#3. Also, the number of different forms in which the article “the” occurs is exactly 7.
#4. There are two main sections in the passage: verse 1-11 and 12-17. In the first main section, the number of Greek vocabulary words used is 49, or 7 x 7.
#5. Of these 49 words, The number of those beginning with a vowel is 28, or 7 x 4.
#6. The number of words beginning with a consonant is 21, or 7 x 3.
#7. The total number of letters in these 49 words is exactly 266, or 7 x 38-exactly.
#8. The numbers of vowels among these 266 letters is 140, or 7 x 20.
#9. The number of consonants is 126, or 7 x 18-exactly.
#10. Of these 49 words, the number of words which occur more than once is 35, or 7 x 5.
#11. The number of words occurring only once is 14, or 7 x2.
#12. The number of words which occur in only one form is exactly 42, or 7 x 6.
#13. The number of words appearing in more than one form is also 7.
#14. The number of 49 Greek vocabulary words which are nouns is 42, or 7 x 6.
#15. The number of words which are not nouns is 7.
#16. Of the nouns, 35 are proper names, or 7 x 5.
#17. These 35 nouns are used 63 times, or 7 x 9.
#18. The number of male names is 28, or 7 x 4.
#19. These male names occur 56 times or 7 x 8.
#20. The number which are not male names is 7.
#21. Three women are mentioned-Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth. The number of Greek letters in these three names is 14, or 7 x 2.
#22. The number of compound nouns is 7.
#23. The number of Greek letters in these 7 nouns is 49, or 7 x 7.
#24. Only one city is named in this passage, Babylon, which in Greek contains exactly 7 letters.
And on and on it goes.

Just to understand how unique these properties are try to design a genealogy-even from fiction that meets the following criteria:
  1. The Number of words must be divisible by 7 evenly (In each of these constraints, it is assumed that the divisions are without remainders.)
    2)The number of letters must also be divisible by 7.
    3)The number of vowels and the number of consonants must be divisible by 7.
    4)The number of words that begin with a vowel must be divisible by 7.
    5)The number of words that begin with a consonant must be divisible by 7.
    6)The number of words that occur more than once must be divisible by 7.
    7)The number of words that occur in more than one form must be divisible by 7.
    8)The number of words that occur in only one form shall be divisible by 7.
    9)The number of nouns shall be divisible by 7.
    10)Only 7 words shall not be nouns.
    11)The number of names in the genealogy shall be divisible by 7.
    12)Only 7 other kinds of nouns are permitted.
    13)The number of male names shall be divisible by 7.
    14)The number of generations shall be 21, also divisible by 7.
There are even more features in the numerical structure of the words themselves. As you may know, both the Hebrew and Greek use the letters of the alphabet for numerical values. Therefore, any specific word in either Hebrew or Greek- has a numerical value of its own by adding up the values of the letters in that particular word. The study of the numerical values of words is called gametria.

The 72 vocabulary words add up to a gametrical value of 42,364, or 7 x 6,052.
The 72 words appear in 90 forms-some appear in more than one form. The numeric value of the 90 forms is 54,075, or 7 x 7,725. Exactly.

It becomes immediately obvious that hidden below the surface are aspects of design that cannot be accidental or just coincidence.

**There are words in the passage just described that occur nowhere else in the New Testament. They occur 42 times (7 x 6) and have 126 letters (7 x 18). How was this organized?

Even if matthew contrived this characteristic into his Gospel, how could he have known that these specific words-whose sole characteristic is that they are found nowhere else in the New Testament-were not going to be used by the other writers? Unless we assume the absurd hypothesis that he had an agreement with them, he must have had the rest of the New Testament before him when he wrote his book. The Gospel of Matthew, then, must have been written last

It so happens the Gospel of Mark exhibits the same phenomenon. It can be demonstrated that it would have had to be written “last.” The same phenomenon is found in Luke, John, Peter, Jude, and Paul. Each would have had to write after the other in order to contrive the vocabulary frequencies! You can demonstrate that each of the New Testament books had to have been “written last.”
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There is no human explanation for this incredible and precise structure. It has all been supernaturally designed. We simply gasp, sit back, and behold the skillful handiwork of the God who keeps his promises.

The Crucifixion of Jesus took place at Golgotha, elevation = 777 meters above sea level.
Also, In the Genesis, Lamech is 777 years old.

Lamech is:* for lowering; for humiliation.*
 
7 deacons of Acts 6.3. Tons of 7s in book of Revelation (7 spirits of God, 7 angels, 7 trumpets etc etc)…7 is also a nice prime number (ie number only divisible by one and itself eg 1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37…) 👍

Also 7 sons of Japeth (one of Noah’s sons) 🙂
1 Chronicles 1:5 The sons of Japheth;
Gomer, and
Magog, and
Madai, and
Javan, and
Tubal, and
Meshech, and
Tiras.

7s all over the place in Bible…
 
I wouldn’t get too caught up in the numbers. Some people use them to try and predict the end of the world. What can be said for certain is the ancient cultures (the Hebrews for instance) found certain numbers to be highly symbolic and used them accordingly. And sometimes even when they mean the number literally they play on the symbolic character of the number(s). What the symbolism in their culture means and how that relates to specific scriptural passages is I think the most useful use of numbers in Scripture.
 
I wouldn’t get too caught up in the numbers. Some people use them to try and predict the end of the world. What can be said for certain is the ancient cultures (the Hebrews for instance) found certain numbers to be highly symbolic and used them accordingly. And sometimes even when they mean the number literally they play on the symbolic character of the number(s). What the symbolism in their culture means and how that relates to specific scriptural passages is I think the most useful use of numbers in Scripture.
Elvin,

I agree with your statement. Seven as I understand it refers to the completion of time or whatever the numbers are referring to. Jewish people use many numbers in sifnificant ways, such as 12 and there are others such as 3. Multiples of 3.

tada: Cora
 
I agree with the two posts above, that reading too much into the numbers can be dangerous or misleading, as you can see by the end times prophecy types of “Christians”.

However, I found the description of the genealogy’s 7s to be quite fascinating, as well as Golgatha being 777 meters above sea level.

Of course, none of these are doctrinal points, or anything important to understand for salvation. But isn’t it lovely how God gives us so many interesting, amazing little things in the scriptures? 🙂

Peace and blessings,
Frank
 
I agree they’re certainly interesting. I’m not trying to take away from that, I’m a numbers guy myself; I love numbers! I’m just throwing out a caution not to get too caught up in them. After all, there are a lot of truths in the Bible one can look at, and numbers aren’t going to really help you with that much.
 
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