Subject: Verse proving the earth is a sphere |
Bible Note: If it's PI you want. PI you will get. 1Ki 7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. PI is the circumference of a circle divided by the diameter. Using the information from the quoted scripture above, that would give a result of 3, 30/10. However, if we delve into the Hebrew words used we find something very interesting, specifically for the word line. If we look this verse up in Strong's Concordance the word line has three numbers: line [06957] (8675) [06961] The number in the middle, 8675 tells about the other 2. Basically, what has happened in such a case is the original writer used an unusual form of the word. Translators kept the unusual form, but also added the usual form of the word. I am glad they did. 06961 or qaveh is the unusual form of the word line. You will find it is used only three times in the Bible. 06957 or qav is the usual form found 21 times. The Hebrews did not have separate characters for numbers and letters. Characters in their langauge represented both numbers and letters. If we take the ratio of the gematriacal value of each form of the word line, qaveh being 111 and qav being 106 111/106 gives the ratio 1.0471698113207547169811320754717 Multiply that by the original ratio from the circumference to diameter, 3 and you get: 3.1415094339622641509433962264151 That is PI correct to 4 decimal places. Praise the Lord! Norm P.S. Here is an online Strong's Concordance I find very useful: http://www.blueletterbible.org/search.html |