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please.stop
April 29th, 2003, 05:50 PM
i have been wondering...is the letter W the 6th letter of the hebrew alphabet?

i am unsure if anyone has mentioned this before, but if you take the number of the beast as seen and convert it to letters, it is WWW...the universal web prefix...
Joshua's Gen
April 29th, 2003, 06:22 PM
Read this. (http://www.av1611.org/666/www_666.html)

http://www.geocities.com/daedalus_888/HebrewLetters.txt
please.stop
April 29th, 2003, 06:31 PM
many thanks!
pilgrimian
April 30th, 2003, 10:02 AM
In this passage [Rev 13:16-18] whatever the personal name of the Antichrist will be, if his name is spelled out in Hebrew characters (great post Joshuas Gen!!!), the numerical value of his name is 666. So this is the name that will be put on the worshippers of the Antichrist.

Antichrist (http://www.ariel.org/qantichr.html)

Godspeed,
Matthew
Doulos
May 1st, 2003, 09:19 PM
Originally posted by please.stop
i have been wondering...is the letter W the 6th letter of the hebrew alphabet?

i am unsure if anyone has mentioned this before, but if you take the number of the beast as seen and convert it to letters, it is WWW...the universal web prefix...

The number of the beast is not 6-6-6. It is 600-60-6.
Hootmon
May 2nd, 2003, 10:27 AM
The number of the beast is not 6-6-6. It is 600-60-6.
I agree. The Name of the Beast will be the Gematria sum of his name, whos total equals Six Hundred Sixty Six.
filosofer
May 2nd, 2003, 01:09 PM
In this passage [Rev 13:16-18] whatever the personal name of the Antichrist will be, if his name is spelled out in Hebrew characters (great post Joshuas Gen!!!), the numerical value of his name is 666.

And is the assumption that it will be Hebrew correct? Why not Greek since that is the language in which John wrote? And then what happens to the "calculations"?
Hootmon
May 2nd, 2003, 01:14 PM
And is the assumption that it will be Hebrew correct? Why not Greek since that is the language in which John wrote? And then what happens to the "calculations"?
Good question. Either Greek or Hebrew COULD be used as they are both true 'alphanumeric' languages.

Since Revelation was written in Greek, I would assume that Greek is the proper choice for doing the gematria.

Does anyone have a more authoritative answer?

{Edit: Wouldnt it be interesting if a name added up to 666 in BOTH Greek and Hebrew?}
filosofer
May 2nd, 2003, 01:41 PM
Well, it also has to take into account the textual variant in 13:18 - some manuscripts have 616, not 666.

Consider Nero in Greek, which sometimes has an enclitic nu - ("n" at the end for phonetic reasons).

N + E + R + O = 616

N + E + R + O + N = 666

This isn't definitive, but matches both textual variants.