Ephesians 4:5 “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.” Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Nevertheless, I present the information for your examination. Whether or not the numbers really have significance is still debated in many circles. However, some of the numeric relationships are interesting.
There are many interesting ‘games’ that can be played with this feature of Greek and Hebrew, and much of it is absurd. Therefore, the gematria of “Jesus” in Greek is 888 because i = 10, a = 8, s = 200, o = 70, u = 400, s = 200. Since each letter has a numeric equivalent, we can add up each number and get a value. For example, the word “ Jesus” in Greek is iasous. The interesting thing is that when a word is written, it also has a numeric equivalent. They knew when they were writing numbers and when they were writing letters. For example, is “O” a zero or a letter in the alphabet? Is “l” a one or a small L? When they are used, the context tells us which is which and we have no problem understanding it. In a small way, we do the same thing in English. So, in each language, the letters are also used as numbers. Where we have numbers and letters, they have only letters.
One of the interesting features of Hebrew and Greek is that in both written languages there are no numeric characters. It is an interesting assessment of biblical numerology. Whether or not the analysis of these number patterns is accurate is up for debate, but I present to you this information condensed from the book Number in Scripture by Bullinger. Who can deny that 40 is significant? Jesus was in the desert for 40 days, and the Israelites wandered in the desert for 40 years. It seems quite obvious that the Bible uses numbers in patterns.
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