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| Gematria and the 153 Fish [Text modified] |
| The word Gematria comes from the Greek either the same as geometry or from the word gromiteo which means letters. |
| The word tetragrammaton [four letters] is a four-letter name of God, the principle behind Gematria. |
| The first documented use of Gematria is from an Assyrian inscription dating to the 8th Century BC commissioned by Sargon II in 713 BC. |
| In this inscription Sargon II states the king built the wall of Khorsabad sixteen thousand two hundred and eighty three cubits long to correspond with the numerical value of his name. |
| For the Hebrew alphabet, number values are attributed to each letter [Aleph – 1, Bet – 2, Gimmel – 3, Dalet – 4 and Hei – 5, etc..] |
| In Israel, if you have any printed Bible or any prayer book or religious book your chapter numbers will be using these letters. Your verse numbers might also use these letters. |
| Mathematics was created by God and people who study Scripture find a lot of meaning in the numbers; there are a lot of numbers embedded into the Bible. |
| You can find Pi by manipulating the Hebraic letters in Genesis 1:1 through a certain kind of formula. |
| [[The number of letters x the product of the letters] / [The number of words x the product of the words] = 3.1416 x 1017. The value of ? to four decimal places.] |
| Similarly, you can find the constant e in the Greek in John 1:1. |
| [[The number of letters x the product of the letters] / [The number of words x the product of the words] = 2.7183 x 1040, the value of e. |
| You can find Phi in 2 Chronicles 4:2. |
| The golden ratio, often represented by the Greek letter phi, is approximately equal to 1.618033988749895. Phi (golden ratio/golden mean) is directly related to the Fibonacci numbers. It’s an irrational number, meaning it cannot be expressed as a simple fraction. This ratio appears in various natural phenomena and is related to the Fibonacci sequence. |
| In Genesis 6:8 we have: “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.” |
| If you look in the Hebrew you see that the word for Noah his name has two letters and the word for grace has two letters. |
| They’re the same two letters so they’re going to have the same number value. |
| there’s some connection between these two ideas – Noah and grace – just in case you thought there was no grace in the Old Testament. |
| A classic example that people gave is in Genesis 14:14: “And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained [servants], born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued [them] unto Dan.” |
| It seems like a kind of a random number [318] but we know that there’s no wasted information in the Bible and so the Gematria for Eliezer’s name is 318. |
| Remember Eliezer of Damascus was the chief servant of Abram’s house. |
| We will not be discussing that but we will talk about the 153 fish. |
| The verse we’re talking about is John 21:11. |
| “Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land full of great fishes a hundred and fifty and three and for all there were so many yet was not the net broken”. |
| As we said there’s no wasted information in the Bible. |
| The Ancients believed that there were 153 species of fish in the world, but they were short by about 33450 species. |
| The Jewish people have always been associated with fish. |
| The Christian fish-shape has been known for a long time; the almond shape in the middle has the name Vesica Pisces, which means the bladder of the fish. |
| A fish bladder is not where a fish stores urine like our bladder but it’s a kind of a gas or an air bladder. |
| It’s inside the fish and it helps the fish to control their buoyancy and to stay at their current depth level, without having to constantly expend energy to stay somewhere. |
| It also functions as a resonating chamber to produce or receive sound. |
| So we have this almond shape with extended lines to make the little traditional fish. |
| How is this related to the number 153? |
| By geometry, the ratio of the width of this shape to the height is 265 divided by 153, which yields 1.73203. |
| This is one of the closest approximations to the square root of 3. |
| 153 has a lot of interesting mathematical functions. |
| It is related to the number 17 [153=9×17]. |
| 153 is a triangular number: T17 = 153 = 17+16+…+3+2+1. |
| It also has this function: if you take any number which is divisible by 3 and cube each of the digits, and then add the result. |
| You now have a new number and you perform that function again and again. |
| Eventually you will come down to a number which is 153. It always reduces to 153. |
| Some other interesting Gematria factoids on 153: 8 times 153 is 1224 and that is the Greek Gematria for the word Ichthus, which is fish. |
| While the number 153 is not directly linked to the dimensions or specific elements of the tabernacle itself, the concept of the tabernacle as a dwelling place of God and a place of meeting with Him (as mentioned in some interpretations of the text) can be seen as a backdrop to the symbolism of 153. |
| So that’s kind of interesting because we as believers are encouraged to live under the shadow of His wing. |
| The number 153 is the numerical total for the Hebrew words “Ani Elohim”–I AM GOD. |
| Also the square root of 153 comes out to 12.369 which is the number of full moons in a year and as you know the lunar calendar is central to Hebraic worship. |
| There are two cases at least of Gematria in the Bible, one is a 666 and the other is the reference to the miraculous catch of 153. |
| Both are seen as an application of Gematria derived from the name of a spring called Eglium, which appears in Ezekiel 47:10: |
| And it shall come to pass, [that] the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a [place] to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many. |
| Engedi and Eneglaim are both located near the Dead Sea. En-Gedi, which translates to “spring of the kid,” is an established oasis, archaeological site, and nature reserve on the western shore of the Dead Sea, currently known as ?Ain Jidi. |
| Eneglaim, meaning “spring of the calf,” is mentioned in Ezekiel 47:10, but its exact location is not known. While scholars suggest it was on the shores of the Dead Sea, possibly near ?Ain Feshka or on the southeastern shore, the precise spot remains debated. |
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