Bible Question:
Thank you for this opportunity to submit my question. In the Bible, various numbers are used in both the Old Testament and the New. The basic assumption is that the numbers are decimal...that is...Base-10. As I understand, the numbering system that we use now were developed "after" the resurrection. As such, it seems that the Old Testament numbers must have been converted from older numbering systems. I would appreciate it if you could perhaps answer this question or direct me to other links. Examples are numbers such as 666, 40, 7, etc. As an IT-Math teacher, this information will certainly help my students. Thank you, and I wish you a wonderful year ahead. TL |
Bible Answer: The Arabic numeral system with the zero was developed after the New Testament. The Romans used the roman numerals I,V, X etc. during the time of the New Testament. Egyptians at the time of Moses used a similar but more primitive system with one symbol for the ones, another for the tens, etc. Still it was base ten. You must go back to the Sumerians to get a base 60 system. Even here it was a mixed 6 and ten system. They gave us the 360 degrees of the compass and the 60 minutes and seconds plus the 12 hours for the day and night. We have written records of theirs on squares and cubes and roots. 666 comes from a system of converting a name to numbers. I think nero might convert to 666. 7 was special because the Hebrew word meant both seven and oath. Evil is used of Oath breakers and oathkeepers were Godly. I do not know about the source of 40 yet. I have studied alot of Biblical math. I even studied the movement of the Pole star to see when 1/3 of the permanent stars started falling to earth. (The most useless Bible Study ever.) Greentwiga |
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