1400 is the number in scripture. Number(7) Seven - Symbol of mystery

The numbers found in the Bible are very interesting. So, for example, the number seven reflects completeness, completeness, perfection and even holiness. See the seven days of the week, the seventh day is Saturday. Enoch is the seventh from Adam, etc. The number ten is more practical, connected with money. Ten talents, tithing. The number twelve is also interesting. Twelve patriarchs, twelve tribes of the people of Israel, twelve apostles.

This game can be taught in different options. Write a number on the cards. Then show these cards in turn and ask the participants to name the events from the Bible that are associated with this number. You can lay out all the cards so that they are reverse side up. Then the participants randomly draw out cards and name the events known to them related to the number that hit them.

1. One of the ten healed of leprosy who returned to thank Jesus (Luke 17:12-15).
2. One lost sheep (Luke 15:4).
3. The first day of creation (Gen. 1:5).
4. Jacob had one daughter, Dinah (Gen. 30:19).
5. One daughter of Absalom is Tamar (2 Sam. 14:27).
6. One door and one window in the ark (Gen. 6:16).
7. Once Paul was stoned (2 Cor. 11:25). 8. One tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:17).
9. One denarius for one day of work (Matt. 20:2).
10. One flock and one Shepherd John (10:16).

1. The angels who appeared to Lot at the gates of Sodom (Gen. 19:1).
2. Thieves crucified with Jesus (Matt. 27:37).

3. Two fish that ate five thousand (Matt. 14:16).
4. Two Assaria, for which five sparrows were sold (Luke 12:6).
5. Two bears (2 Kings 2:22).
6. Two tablets (Ex. 31:18).
7. Two disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13).
8. The two pillars that Samson moved (Judg. 16:29).
9. In pairs, the animals entered the ark (Gen. 7:1).
10. Two sons from the parable of prodigal son(Luke 15:11).
11. Naomi's two daughters-in-law (Ruth 1:8).
12. Two sons of Naomi (Ruth 1:3).
13. Two spies who hid in Raavi's house (Joshua 2:3).
14. The widow's two mites (Mark 12:41).
15. Twice Moses struck the rock (Num. 20:11).
16. Two men in white clothes after the ascension of Christ (Acts 1:10).
17. Two sons of Joseph (Gen. 46:27).
18. Jesus spent two days in the Samaritan village (John 4:39)

1. Three temptations of Christ in the wilderness (Mat. 4).
2. Three hours - darkness on earth during the crucifixion of Christ (Mk. 15:32).
3. Three young men in the furnace (Dan. 3:23).
4. Three days and three nights of Jonah in the belly of the whale (Jonah 1:17).
5. Daniel prayed three times a day.
6. Paul was shipwrecked three times (2 Cor. 11:25).
7. Three times Paul was beaten with sticks (2 Cor. 11:25).
8. Three times Peter denied Christ (Matt. 26:75).
9. Three floors in the ark (Gen. 6:16).
10. Three sons of Noah (Gen. 9:19).
11. Three times Balaam's donkey refused to go (Num. 22:31)
12. Job's three friends (New 2:11).
13. Saul saw nothing for three days (Acts 9:8).
14. Moses' mother hid for three months (Ex. 2:2).
15. There was darkness in Egypt for three days (Ex. 10:22).
16. Three daughters of Job (Job 42:13).
17. Three times Noah let the dove out of the ark (Gen. 8:8).
18. Three tabernacles - the mountain of transfiguration (Mark 9:2).
19. Christ appears three times after the resurrection (John 21:14).
20. At three o'clock they crucified Christ (Mark 15:23).

1. Four in a fiery furnace (Dan. 3:25).
2. The number of days that Lazarus was in the grave (John 11:14).
3. The number of branches into which the river flowing through Eden was divided (Gen. 2:10).
4. The number of buckets of water poured on the altar of Elijah (1 Kings 18:20).
5. The number of animals in Daniel's vision (Dan. 7:2).
6. Number of Philip's daughters (Acts 21:8).
7. The number of parts into which the garment of Jesus is divided (John 19:23).
8. The number of people who lowered the paralytic through the roof (Mark 2:3).
9. Four anchors were thrown from the ship with the prisoners (Acts 27:29).
10. Number of Gospels.

1. The number of stones that David took before the fight with Goliath (1 Sam. 17:40).
2. The number of girls who had oil in their lamps (Matt. 25:11)
3. The number of foolish virgins having no oil (Mat. 25:3).
4. The age at which Mephibosheth became lame (2 Sam. 4:4).
5. The number of husbands a Samaritan woman has (John 4:7).
6. The number of sparrows sold for two assaria (Luke 12:6).
7. The number of the sons of Dan who were sent to spy on the land (Judg. 18:2).
8. Five times 39 strokes (2 Cor. 11:24).

9. The number of talents in the parable of Christ (Matt. 25:16).
10. The number of kings hiding in the cave from Joshua (Joshua 10:17).

1. The number of days in which our planet was created (Gen. 1:31).
2. The day on which man was created (Gen. 1:26)
3. The number of stone waterpots in Cana (John 2:1).
4. The number of measures of barley that Boaz measured out to Ruth (Ruth 3:7)
5. Number of steps leading to the throne in Solomon's temple (Kings 10:16)
6. Number of cities of refuge (Num. 35:13).
7. The hour in which Peter prayed on the roof of a house in Joppa (Acts 10:5).
8. The month in which Gabriel appeared to Mary (Luke 1:26)
9. The number of wings of the animals standing before the throne (Rev. 4:b).
10. The hour in which the earth was covered with darkness (Matt. 27:44).
11. The number of fingers and toes of the giant from Gath (2 Kings 21:20).

1. The number of years that Jacob worked 2 times for Rachel (Gen. 29:18).
2. The day on which God rested (Gen. 2:2).
3. Number of generations from Adam to Enoch (Jude 14).
4. The number of pairs of clean animals taken into the ark (Gen. 7:9).
5. The flood began seven days after the settlement of the ark (Gen. 7:9).
6. Pharaoh's dream: the number of cows and the number of ears (Gen. 41:17-25).
7. Seven times around Jericho (Joshua 6:2-5).

1. The number of the ungrateful who are healed of leprosy (Luke 17:12).
2. The length (in cubits) of the bed of King Og of Bashan (Deut. 3:11).
3. The reign of Hosea, the last king of Israel (2 Kings 17:6).

1. The number of commandments (Ex. 20 ch.).
2. The number of virgins in the parable of Jesus (Mat. 25 ch.).
3. The number of lepers whom Jesus met and healed (Luke 17:12-14).
4. The number of Egyptian plagues (Ex. 7-12 ch.).
5. The number of Joseph's brothers who went to Egypt for bread (Gen. 42:3).
6. The number of years the sons of Naomi lived with their wives in Moab (Ruth 1:3).
7. The smallest number of people for whom the Lord promised Abraham to spare Sodom (Gen. 18:26)
8. The number of times Laban deceived Jacob (Gen. 31:2).

1. The number of food baskets (Mat. 14:20).
2. The number of the sons of Jacob (Gen. 35:22).
3. Number of tribes in Israel (Rev. 21:l2).
4. Number of apostles (Mark 3:7).
5. Age of Jesus lost in the temple (Luke 2:U).
6. The age of Jairus' daughter who was raised from the dead (Luke 8:41).
7. The number of minor prophets (Hosea-Malachi).
8. Number of wells in Elim (Ex. 15-27).
9. The number of harvests of the tree of life in New Jerusalem (Rev. 22:2).
10. The number of precious stones on the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28:21).
11. Number of sons of Ishmael who became princes (Gen. 25:16).
12. Number of Spies of Canaan (Num. 13:2)
13. Number of showbreads (Lev. 24:5).
14. The number of foundations in the New Jerusalem (Rev. 21:14).

1. The age at which Jesus was baptized (Luke 3:23).
2. The number of pieces of silver for which Jesus was betrayed (Matt. 26:15).
3. The age at which Joseph became the ruler of Egypt (Gen. 41:46).
4. The number of people who were to pull Jeremiah out of the pit (Jeremiah 38:10).
5. Age at which David became king (Kings 5:4).

1. The number of days and nights it rained during the flood (Gen. 7:12).
2. The number of years the Israelites wandered in the wilderness (Num. 12:2).
3. The number of days Moses spent on Mount Sinai (Ex. 34:2.7).
4. The number of days Christ spent on earth after the resurrection (Acts: 3).
5. Fasting of Jesus Christ in the wilderness (Matt. 4 ch.).
6. The time during which the scouts examined the ground
7. Time during which Eli was judge of Israel (1 Sam. 4:18)
8. Age at which Isaac married Rebekah (Gen. 25:20).
9. The age at which Esau married Judith (Gen. 26:34).
10. Time during which the Israelites ate manna in the wilderness (Ex. 16:35).
11. The number of years spent by Moses in the land of Egypt, then in the land of Midian and in the wilderness with the people of Israel (Acts 7:29).
12. The reign of David and Solomon (2 Sam. 5:4).

1. The number of disciples sent two by two through the cities and villages of Palestine (Luke 10:1).
2. The size of Jacob's family when it moved into Egypt (Gen. 46:27).
3. The number of the elders of Israel who went up the mountain with Moses (Ex. 24:1).
4. The average life span of a person (Psalm 89:10).
5. The term of the Babylonian captivity (Jeremiah 25:11).
6. Number of mounted troops sent to Caesarea to guard Paul (Acts 23:23).
7. The number of date palms in Elim, where the children of Israel encamped (Ex. 15:27).

Other Numbers Found in the Bible

11-The number of stars that bowed down to Joseph in vision (Gen. 37:9).
13-Time during which Solomon built his house (ZKings 7.1).
15-Number of years added to Hezekiah's life (2 Kings 20:5-6).
17-The age at which Joseph was thrown into the pit (Gen. 37:2).
20-The amount for which Joseph was sold (Gen. 37:28).
21 - The number of elders sitting around the throne of God (Rev. 4:4).
42-Number of children mauled by a bear (2 Kings 2:24).
46-Number of years during which the temple was built (John 2:20).
52-Number of days during which the walls of Jerusalem were restored (Nehemiah 6:15).
84-The age of Anna the prophetess when Jesus was brought to the temple (Luke 2:37).
90-The age of Sarah when God said they would have a son (Gen. 17:17).
100 - Abraham's age when Isaac was born to him (Gen. 21:5).
The waters remained 150 days during the flood (Gen. 7:24).
300-The number of soldiers in the detachment of Gideon who defeated the Midianites (Judges 7:5).
300-The number of foxes that Samson caught (Judg. 15:4).
300-The amount that Joseph gave to Benjamin (Gen. 45:22).
600 Chariots sent by Pharaoh after the Israelites (Ex. 14:7).
Methuselah lived 969 years (Gen. 5:27).
1000 is the number of pairs of oxen and donkeys with which Job enriched himself after suffering (Job 42:12).

Mathematical (numerical) pattern in the text of the Bible, the Old Testament (in Hebrew), and the New Testament (in Greek). Numbers in the bible.

A Russian emigrant and mathematician by training, Ivan Nikolaevich Panin, studied mathematical coincidences in texts in Hebrew and Greek. The mathematician discovered an amazing pattern - the numbers in the Bible, formed by mathematical operations between letters and lines, are repeated. The most common number is seven. There is a mystical order around the number seven, beyond coincidence and probability theory. This order or system is found not only in the Word of God, in the Bible, but throughout the entire universe. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew and, like New Testament in Greek, all the letters of these alphabets have their own numerical values, in the scientific world this is called gematria.

The table below shows exactly what this means. Thus, by adding the meaning of each letter, one can calculate the meanings of words, sentences, and so on.

Table of Hebrew and Greek letters and their numerical values:

Bible- not only one of the most popular books in the world. It is both a source of inspiration and hypertext for many. And some even try to find secret codes and encrypted messages in this book. You can relate to this in different ways, but in the Bible there are at least 10 significant numbers that are mentioned many times. Perhaps it is they who will allow you to lift the veil of secrecy over the past and future ...

One

Not surprisingly, the number "1" is used in the Bible to refer to the one and only true God.
The Bible repeatedly repeats such theses as "You will not have any other gods but me", "Our Lord is the only God", etc. Numerologists say that the number "1" is the main one in the Bible, because all the important actions (on the part of Moses, Elijah or Jesus) were carried out alone.

Three

Here, first of all, of course, the Holy Trinity comes to mind, i.e. the number 3 indicates integrity. Jesus had 12 apostles, but it was the three he loved more than the rest: Peter, John and James. Satan tempted Jesus 3 times.
On the third day the earth was created. Jesus resurrected three people. The inscription on the cross is written in 3 languages. The Bible mentions 3 angels: Michael, Gabriel and Lucifer. Jesus was 33 years old at the time of his death. He rose from the dead on the third day.

Four

The number 4 usually indicates the completion of something. Of the 12 tribes of Israel, the genealogy of Jesus goes back to Judah, the fourth generation.
There are 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse. There are 4 angels standing on 4 sides of the Earth (east, south, west, east). Well, the cross has 4 sides.

Six

In the Bible, the number 6 is usually used to represent something imperfect. There are 6 days in the working week and 1 day off. The most famous example of the use of this number in the Bible is 666 or the number of the devil.

Seven

In the Bible, the number 7 is used to indicate perfection. God said in Revelation that there are 7 spirits. In the Tabernacle of the Meeting, and later in the Temple in Jerusalem, a lamp of 7 candles was installed - the menorah.
Noah brought 7 pairs of each type of "clean" animals into the ark, and "unclean" animals were saved in the amount of "each creature in pairs." The flood began seven days after the settlement of the ark. Joshua led the Israelites around Jericho 7 times.

Ten

There are many cases in which the number 10 is the main one. What are the 10 Commandments worth. In addition to the main ten Commandments, there are 603 other commandments, that is, a total of 613. 6 + 1 + 3 \u003d 10. A person has 10 fingers and toes.
Naturally, 10 is one of the most important numbers in the Bible. Even in Old Testament the number 10 was often mentioned. God promised not to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if there were only 10 righteous people in them. Jesus performed a total of 37 miracles, and 3 + 7 = 10

Twelve

12 signs of the Zodiac, 12 hours of the day and night, 12 main Olympic gods, 12 biblical tribes, 12 apostles, 12 days of Christmas... 12 is a very important number in the Bible. The most obvious example is the 12 tribes of Israel.
After the end of the world, 144,000 Christians will be taken up to Heaven, 12,000 from each generation of Israel. New Jerusalem, the city of Heaven, was surrounded by 12 walls, at the base of which 12 precious stones were laid. The Tree of Life bears 12 different fruits.

Twenty one

Isaiah's prophecy about the coming of the Messiah becomes clear in chapter 7, verse 14: "...behold, the Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son...". 7+14=21.
There are 21 chapters in the Gospel of John (3 times 7).

Twenty two

The Bible uses the number 22 in a rather unusual but arithmetically sound way. If 22 is divided by 7, then it will be the exact number "pi". The Bible can be divided into three large "sections" of 22 books each (although this only applies to the Protestant Bible).
The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 letters. Revelation closes the entire Bible at chapter 22. If the age of the prophets, according to the Bible, is added up, you get exact year the birth of Abraham (2167 BC). At the same time, until the death of Jesus in 33 AD. exactly 2200 years have passed.

Fourty

In the Bible, the number 40 is used to signify the completion of something. It is used 146 times in both Testaments. The Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptian pharaohs for 400 years (10 times 40). God made the Israelites wander in the Sinai desert for 40 years.
Moses was 40 times 3 years old (120 years old) at the time of his death. Moses spent 40 days on Mount Sinai in prayer. Christ fasted in the desert for 40 days and 40 days passed before his resurrection. 40 years passed from the Ascension of Jesus to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.

The number 7 in numerology has a special relationship. It is considered sacred, magical, connected with God, bringing happiness. As Scripture says, seven is the perfect number that can rule the entire universe.

Views of the ancients

At all times, all peoples especially revered the seven. AT Ancient Egypt, for example, she was associated with the eternal life of the god Osiris and was called a symbol of creation. Later we meet this interpretation among Christians.

Sumerian ruler Lugulannemundu, who ascended the throne in 2500 BC. e., ordered the construction of a temple to the goddess Nintu. It had to be built with seven gates, seven doors, and upon completion of construction, seven bulls and the same number of sheep should be sacrificed.

The number seven in ancient Greece symbolized Apollo, since, according to myth, he was born on the seventh day of the month, his lyre had seven strings. The legends of that time are "full" of the mention of this number: seven circles of hell, seven cyclops, etc.

As you know, Rome was built on seven hills. There have also been seven Wonders of the World, which everyone knows about, since the Flood.

The hoary antiquity is maximally "filled" with the number 7 - it played a huge role in the lives of people of ancient times.

Religions and the number 7

In the Old and New Testaments, researchers have counted about 700 references to this number!

In Islam, stories about seven brides, seven lands, seven gates of paradise and steps of hell appear everywhere. Pilgrims to Mecca, both earlier and in our time, are required to make seven detours of the sacred stone.

Recall that there were seven prophets: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus, Muhammad. For seven days, Yeshua walked around Jericho and had 7 priests with him ... Everyone knows about the seven deadly sins prescribed in the Bible.

Number pattern in the Bible

Ivan Panin, a Russian immigrant in America, converted to Christianity after discovering amazing number systems in nature that he believed were the result of the Creator's will. At the end of the 19th century, Panin began to research the Bible and concluded that the number 7 was encrypted in every word of the Old and New Testaments.

The constant mention of the seven in the Holy Scriptures, obviously, indicates that it can help us lift the veil over the secret idea of ​​the Creator.

The first phrase from the Old Testament “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1) consists of 7 words, and those, in turn, of 28=7x4 letters. Moreover, in fact, the first three words, subject and predicate, consist of 14 = 7x2 letters, the same number of letters in the last 4 words. The shortest of the words is in the middle of the phrase, the number of letters in it and the word on the left is 7, and the number of letters in the middle word and the word on the right is also 7. And so on ... What is it: a coincidence, an accident?

The theory of probability, as well as existing mathematical patterns, suggest that such subordination to the number 7 of the entire biblical text cannot be an accident. There is a clear intent here. This belief is also supported by the fact that it is impossible to build the entire chain without taking into account the peculiarities of the alphabet, spelling of words and grammar of the Hebrew and Ancient Greek languages. Who in those distant times was able to carry out such a colossal, global “work”? Whoever could do this has versatility and absolute vision.

The number 7 in the modern world

But what about the recent past and our present? “Seven” are mentioned very often: seven seals, seven dwarfs, seven colors of the rainbow, seven winds, seven days of the week, seven spans in the forehead, seven Fridays in the week ...

Folk wisdom, as we see, also strongly “sin” by mentioning this sacred number: seven feet under the keel, measure seven times, seventh water on jelly, work up to a seventh sweat, seven spans in the forehead, in seventh heaven from happiness, and so on and so forth ...

This can be continued ad infinitum. It is obvious that even now the seven is given some special place in people's lives.

Number 7 in the world order

The spectrum of light consists of 7 colors. The musical scale consists of 7 notes. As you know, there are 7 days in a week.

How much in our life is connected with this figure! A woman carries a child for 280 days (this is 7 × 40), a mouse - 21 days (7 × 3), a rabbit - 28 days (7 × 4), a lion - 98 (7 × 14), the same applies to the pregnancy of other living beings. AT lunar month there are 28 days (7×4).

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Since ancient times, numbers have played an important and multifaceted role in human life. Ancient people attributed to them special, supernatural properties; some numbers promised happiness and success, others could cause a blow of fate. In many cultures, especially Babylonian, Hindu and Pythagorean, number is the beginning of all things. Recognized experts in the field of application of numbers were the ancient Indians, Egyptians, Chaldeans. The Chinese have odd numbers - this is yang, heaven, immutability and auspiciousness; even numbers are yin, earth, volatility and inauspiciousness.

In Christianity, before the teachings of Saints Augustine and Alexander, the symbolism of numbers was poorly developed.

Classical or Pythagorean school.

The founder of the European doctrine of numbers was Pythagoras, who is credited with saying: "The world is built on the power of numbers." In his school, knowledge of the properties of numbers was the first step on the path to esoteric knowledge. Numbers, according to Pythagoras, have both quantitative and qualitative features. Studying the properties of numbers, the Pythagoreans were the first to pay attention to the laws of their divisibility. They divided all numbers into even - "male" and odd - "female", or otherwise "gnomons" and, very importantly, into prime and compound. The Pythagoreans called composite numbers, representable as a product of two factors, "flat numbers" and depicted them as rectangles, and composite numbers, representable as a product of three factors, "solid numbers" and depicted them as parallelepipeds. Prime numbers, which cannot be represented as products, they called "linear numbers".
The Pythagoreans considered perfect numbers such numbers that were equal to the sum of their divisors (excluding the number itself), such as, for example, 6=1+2+3 or 28=1+2+4+7+14. There are not many perfect numbers. Among the single-digit ones, this is only 6, among the two-digit, three-digit and four-digit ones - only 28, 496 and 8128, respectively. Two numbers that have the property that the sum of the divisors of one of them is equal to the other, were called "friendly".

Later, the Greek numerological system was borrowed by Europeans, and later transferred to Russia.
Almost every world religion has its own "sacred numbers", and each number symbolizes a certain meaning.

DIGIT "0" has the same symbolism as the empty circle, indicating both the absence of death and the absolute life that is inside the circle.
For Pythagoras, zero is the perfect form.
In Taoism, zero symbolizes emptiness and non-existence.
In Buddhism, it is emptiness and immateriality.
In Islam, it is a symbol of the Essence of the Divine.
In the teachings of Kabbalah, there is infinity, boundless light, one.

DIGIT "1" means the primary unity, the beginning, the Creator.

NUMBER "2" means duality.
According to Pythagoras, a dyad is a divided earthly being.
In Buddhism, the two is the duality of samsara, male and female, wisdom and method, blind and lame, united in order to see the path and follow it.
In China, it is yin, feminine, earthly, unfavorable.
In Christianity - Christ has two natures: God and man.
In Jewish tradition, life force.
In Kabbalah - wisdom and self-consciousness.
In Hinduism - duality, shakta - shakti.
In Islam, the spirit.

NUMBER "3". The idea of ​​trinity is the basis of many ancient philosophical and religious teachings. The three-dimensionality of space is associated with the triple: length-width-height; three-phase substance: solid-liquid - steam; the trinity of time: past - present - future; human (body, soul and spirit), as well as birth, life and death; beginning, middle and end; past, present and future; three phases of the moon; trinity of the World; in many religions, the upper World is the sky, the middle one is the earth, the lower one is water.
Three is a heavenly number, symbolizing the soul. This is the number of luck.
In Christianity: Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; the unity of body and soul in man and the Church. The three hypostases are the dogma of the trinity, which is distinctive feature Christianity from Islam and Judaism. Therefore, the number "3" is the sacred number of Christianity. The Bible speaks of three gifts of the Magi to Christ as God, King and Redemptive Sacrifice, three images of the Transfiguration, three temptations, three denials of Peter, three crosses on Golgotha, three days of Christ's death, three appearances after death, three qualities, or theological virtues: Faith , Hope, Love.
In Kabbalah, the three symbolizes understanding, as well as the trinity of male and female principles and mutual understanding that unites them.
In Hinduism - Trimurti, the threefold power of creation, destruction and preservation; various triplets of deities; the moon chariot has three wheels.
In Japan, the Three Treasures are a mirror, a sword and a gem; truth, courage and compassion.
AT Chinese character“van” (three horizontal lines connected by a vertical one), which means the word “prince”, the upper horizontal line symbolizes the sky, the lower one - the earth, the middle one - a person who, on behalf of the sky, controls the earth.
In folklore, there are three wishes, three attempts, three princes, three witches, fairies (two good, one evil).
There are toasts threefold. Three also means fulfillment. The triples of deities and forces are countless. Trinity moon deities and triune goddesses abound in Semitic, Greek, Celtic, and ancient Germanic religions.
The main symbol of the triple is a triangle. Three linked rings or triangles symbolize the indissoluble unity of the three faces of the trinity. Other symbols: trident, fleur-de-lis, shamrock, three lightning bolts, trigrams. Lunar animals are often tripodal, representing the three phases of the moon.

NUMBER "4" means wholeness, totality, completeness; four cardinal directions, seasons, winds, sides of the square.
In Pythagoreanism, four means perfection, harmonious proportion, justice, earth. Four is the number of the Pythagorean oath.
In Christianity, the number four is the number of the body, while the number three symbolizes the soul. Four rivers of paradise, the gospel, the evangelist, the main archangel, the main devil. Four fathers of the church, great prophets, the main virtues (wisdom, firmness, justice, moderation). Four winds carrying the One Spirit, four apocalyptic horsemen, tetramorphs (synthesis of the forces of the four elements).
Four is a symbolic number in the Old Testament. Four rivers of paradise, forming a cross, four parts of the earth, etc. are found in symbolism almost everywhere. The four can be represented by a quatrefoil, as well as a square or a cross.
In Buddhism, the Tree of Life Damba has four branches, four sacred rivers of paradise flow from its roots, symbolizing four boundless desires: compassion, affection, love, impartiality; four directions of the heart.
In China, four is the number of earth, which is symbolized by the square. Four rivers of immortality. Four is an even, yin number. In Chinese Buddhism, there are four heavenly guardians guarding each side of the world.
In Egypt, four is the sacred number of time, the solar measure. The vault of heaven rests on four pillars. Four burial urns, placed on four sides around the deceased, are guarded by the four sons of Horus, who are associated with the four cardinal points.
In the Jewish tradition, this is a measure, a blessing, an understanding.
Among the American Indians, this number is most often used as the four cardinal points. The four winds are represented by a cross and a swastika. Ritual and ceremonial actions are repeated four times.
In Kabbalah, four means memory. Four worlds of Kabbalah, four directions in space and four hierarchical levels of the Torah.
In Hinduism, the four is totality, completeness, perfection. The Creator, Brahma, has four faces. The temple stands on four sides of a square, symbolizing order and finality. Four tattvas, four bodies of man, four kingdoms of nature (animal, vegetable, mineral, mind), four yugas. In a game of dice, a four means a win. Four castes, four pairs of opposites.
The Islamic four includes the principle - the creator, the world spirit, the world soul, the original matter. They correspond to the four worlds of Kabbalah. There are four more angelic beings, four houses of death.

NUMBER "5"- the number of sacred marriage, since it is the sum of the female (even) two and the male (odd) three.
In the Greco-Roman tradition, five is the number of marriage, love, unity; the number of Venus, with the years of Venus forming groups of five years. Apollo as the god of light has five qualities: he is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, one.
In Christianity, the five symbolizes a person after the fall; five senses; five points forming a cross; five wounds of Christ; five fish that fed five thousand people; Pentateuch of Moses.
In Buddhism, the heart has four directions, which, together with the center, form a five and symbolize universality. There are five Dhyani-Buddhas: Vairochana - Brilliant, Akshobhya - Unruffled, Ratnasambhava - Gemstone, Amitabha - Boundless Light, Amoghasiddhi - Immutable Luck.
The Chinese have five elements, five atmospheric substances, five conditions, planets, sacred mountains, grains, flowers, tastes, poisons, powerful amulets, basic virtues, initiations, eternal ideals, five kinds of relationships within humanity. In the Jewish tradition, five is strength and severity, understanding the essence.
In Kabbalah, five means fear.
In Hinduism, these are five-membered groups of the world, five elements of subtle and gross states, five primary colors, feelings, five faces of Shiva and twice five incarnations of Vishnu.
Islam has five pillars of faith, five divine presences, five basic tenets, five actions, five daily prayers.

NUMBER "6". Means balance, harmony. The most prolific of all numbers (Philo).
In numerology, the number 6 means the union of two triangles - male and female, one of which stands on the base, and the other is turned upside down. This sign is well known as the Shield of David, the hexagon that appears on the flag of the State of Israel.

NUMBER "7" considered sacred, and divine, and magical, and happy. The seven was revered many centuries before our era, in the Middle Ages, and is revered today.
In Babylon, a seven-stage temple was built in honor of the main gods. The priests of this city claimed that people after death, having passed through seven gates, fall into the underworld, surrounded by seven walls.
AT ancient greece the number seven was called the number of Apollo, one of the most important gods of the Olympian religion. It is known from mythology that the Minotaur, a bull-man who lived in a labyrinth on the island of Crete, was annually sent by the inhabitants of Athens as a tribute to be eaten by seven young men and seven girls; Tantalus' daughter Niobe had seven sons and seven daughters; The island nymph Ogygia Calypso held Odysseus captive for seven years; the whole world is familiar with the “seven wonders of the world”, etc.
Ancient Rome also worshiped the number seven. The city itself is built on seven hills; the river Styx surrounding the underworld, flows around hell seven times, divided by Virgil into seven regions.
Islam, Christianity and Judaism recognize the seven-step act of creating the universe. However, in Islam the number "7" has a special meaning. According to Islam, there are seven heavens; those who enter the seventh heaven experience the highest bliss. Therefore, the number "7" is the sacred number of Islam.
In the Christian holy books, the number seven is mentioned many times: “Whoever kills Cain will be avenged seven times”, “...and seven years of abundance passed ... and seven years of famine came”, “and count yourself seven Sabbath years, seven times seven years, so that you have forty-nine years in seven Sabbath years, ”and so on. Great Lent among Christians has seven weeks. There are seven orders of angels, seven deadly sins. In many countries, there is a custom to put seven dishes on the Christmas table, the name of which begins with one letter.
In Brahmin and Buddhist beliefs and worship, the number seven is also sacred. From the Hindus came the custom of giving seven elephants for happiness - figurines made of bone, wood or other material.
The seven was very often used by healers, fortune-tellers and sorcerers: "Take seven bags, with seven different herbs, infusion on seven waters and drink seven days in seven spoons ...".
The number seven is associated with many mysteries, signs, proverbs, sayings: “Seven spans in the forehead”, “Seven nannies have a child without an eye”, “Measure seven times, cut one”, “One with a bipod, seven with a spoon”, “For beloved friend, seven miles is not a suburb”, “For seven miles of jelly to sip”, “Seven troubles - one answer”, “Over the seven seas”, etc.

NUMBER "8"- the number of newly found paradise, as well as renewal, restoration, happiness. The eighth day gave birth to a new, perfect man. After seven days of fasting and repentance, spiritual renewal begins on the eighth.
For the Pythagoreans, eight means three-dimensionality and stability.
In the Sumerian-Semitic tradition, eight is the magical number of Heaven.
For Buddhists, the figure eight is completeness, the totality of all possibilities. Eight symbols of good omen.
For the Chinese, it means the whole, all possibilities in their manifested form, good luck. Ba-gua are eight trigrams and pairs of opposites, usually arranged in a circle, symbolizing time and space. Eight joys of human existence.
In Christianity, it means restoration and rebirth. The baptismal is usually octagonal, which symbolizes the place of rebirth. Eight beatitudes.
In Egypt, eight is the number of Thoth.
The Jews have the number of the Lord; The temple was consecrated for eight days.
In Hinduism, 8x8 means the order of the heavenly world, established on earth. The structure of the temples reproduces the mandala, which is characterized by the same symbolism - 8x8. There are eight areas of the world, eight suns, parts of the day, chakras.
In Islam, the throne that governs the world is supported by eight angels, corresponding to the eight directions and eight groups of letters of the Arabic alphabet.
In Japanese, eight means a lot; there are eight gods in the sky.

NUMBER "9" means omnipotence, and represents the Triple Triad (3x3). This is the number of the circle, hence the division into 90 and 360 degrees.
The Pythagoreans have nine - the limit of all numbers, within which all others exist and circulate. This number is heavenly and angelic, heaven on earth.
Nine is a sacred number in Scandinavian and ancient Germanic symbolism.
In Christian symbolism, the nine rarely appears. There are triple triads of angelic choirs, nine spheres and circles around hell.
For Buddhists, nine is the highest spiritual power, a heavenly number.
For the Chinese, 3x3 is the most auspicious of all numbers, meaning also the eight directions plus the center as the ninth point, as in the Hall of Light. There are nine basic public laws and nine classes of officials.
In the Greco-Roman tradition, there are nine gods, and later nine muses.
The Jews have nine - pure understanding, truth, since the nine reproduces itself when multiplied.
In Kabbalah, it symbolizes foundation.

NUMBER "10"- the number of the cosmos, it contains all numbers, and therefore all things and possibilities, this is the basis and turning point of the whole account. It means something comprehensive, law, order, authority. 1+2+3+4=10 - symbolizes the divine; one means a point, two means length, three (triangle) means plane, four means volume or space.
For the Pythagoreans, ten is the renewal of a series, perfection.
In Rome, this number was represented by the sign X - a perfect figure, meaning completeness.
Ten is also the number of completing journeys and returning to the starting point. Odysseus wandered for nine years, and returned in the tenth year. Troy was under siege for nine years and fell in the tenth year.
The Chinese depict ten as a cross, the center of which is formed by the hieroglyph chi, which symbolizes the human self, in front of which both paths, yin and yang, lie, this is a perfect figure. The Ten Heavenly Stems (Gan) are possibly related to the ten day week of the most common cycle.
Christians have ten commandments of the Decateuch, parables about ten lamps, virgins, talents. Tithing was dedicated to God.
In Kabbalah, ten is the numerical value of the letter J-yod - the Eternal Word, the first letter of the name of God. Symbolizes a brilliant ability to understand, divine support.
In Islam, ushr (tithe), a tax on land holdings, which should go to the general needs of Muslims, plays an important role.

NUMBER "11". Since ten is a perfect number and law, eleven symbolizes going beyond the limits of both and means sin, violation of the law, danger.

NUMBER "12" represents the cosmic order. This is the number of zodiac signs and months in a year (six male and six female). Twelve hours of the day and night. Twelve fruits on the Cosmic Tree. In addition, twelve days of return to chaos during winter solstice when the dead return, were celebrated in Rome during the Saturnalia. The twelve days before Christmas have the same symbolism.
This figure is found in Vedic, Chinese, pagan and European symbols: 12 members in the council of the Dalai Lama, 12 paladins (peers) of Charlemagne, 12 knights of the Round Table.
Christians have 12 fruits of the spirit, stars, 12 tribes of Israel, 12 apostles, 12 gates and stones at the foundation of the Holy City, 12 days of Christmas celebration.
The Egyptians have 12 gates of hell, in which Ra spends the night hours.
The Greeks on Olympus have 12 gods and goddesses, 12 titans.
In the Jewish tradition - 12 fruits of the Tree of Life; 12 gates of the Heavenly City; 12 cakes on the table of the temple, depicting the months of the year; 12 gems in Aaron's breastplate; 12 tribes of Israel, sons of Jacob.
In Islam, 12 Imams, descendants of Ali, govern the twelve hours of the day.

NUMBER "13". The attitude to this number has always been special: it was considered either unlucky or, conversely, bringing good luck.
In Christianity during evening services last week During Lent, thirteen candles (the Catholics call them tenebrae) are extinguished one after the other, which symbolizes the darkness that has come on earth after the death of Christ. The number thirteen is considered unlucky because it is the number of Judas along with Jesus and the apostles. Also, this is the number of the witches' coven.
The Aztecs associated this mysterious number with the concept of time, namely, it meant the completion of the time cycle. They also believed that the number "13" was somehow connected with heaven. In the hair of one of their main deities, there were thirteen curls, and in the beard - the same number of strands.
The ancient Chinese erected numerous temples in honor of the god Huang Di. The emperor's servants made sacrifices in these temples on the 13th of the first and fifth months of each year.
The holy book "Kabbalah" mentions thirteen evil spirits, the number "13" denotes a snake, a dragon, Satan and a murderer.
The thirteenth chapter of the Apocalypse deals with the Antichrist and the Beast.
This number is used in divination. There are many superstitions associated with it. In many hotels in the United States, neither the thirteenth floor nor the thirteenth room exists. In addition, there is no seat number 13 on American airlines. In a number of large cities in France, houses that must have the serial number "13" are indicated by the 12-bis code. Hostesses are wary of seating 13 guests at the table.
This is speculated to be related to memories of the Last Supper; when during the last meal of Jesus Christ, in addition to the twelve apostles surrounding him, there was also the thirteenth - the traitor Judas.

"40". Means trial, trial, initiation, death. The special significance of forty days goes back, apparently, to Babylon, where the forty-day period of the disappearance of the Pleiades from the sky was a time of rains, storms and floods and was considered dangerous. The Romans kept arriving ships in quarantine for forty days, and the word itself is derived from the word forty.
The temples of the Persians, Tatars, in Baalbek, the temples of the Druids, the temple of Ezekiel had forty columns. In Christianity, forty days from Easter to Ascension is the period of immunity and the time of the right to asylum. In the Old Testament, Moses spent forty days at Sinai; Elijah hid for forty days; for forty days the downpour of the Flood poured down; forty days of trial of Nineveh under Jonah; the Jews wandered in the wilderness for forty years; for forty years they walked under the yoke of the Philistines; David and Solomon reigned forty years; Elijah judged Israel for forty years. The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel speaks of a vision in which God commanded the prophet, for forty years of iniquity in the house of Judah, to lie on his right side for forty days.
In Egypt, Osiris was absent for forty days after his death, this is a period of fasting.
In Islam, forty is the number of change and death, but also of reconciliation and return to principle. Mohammed was called at the age of forty. The Koran is recited every forty days.
In Mithraism, forty is the number of days of initiation, festivities, and sacrifices.

"60". Time number (60 minutes and 60 seconds).
In Egypt, it symbolized longevity.
In China, it is a cyclic number symbolizing the sexagesimal cycle, known in the past in the West as the Chinese cycle. The interaction of the alternating Ten Heavenly Stems and Twelve Earthly Branches is built in such a way that the cycle ends in the sixtieth year, when all combinations are exhausted, and then repeats again. Six cycles are roughly equal to a tropical year.

"70". In Jewish symbolism, the seventy branches of the candelabra represent the Decans - the twelve zodiacal subdivisions of the seven planets into tens. Seventy years is the length of a human life.

"666". In Christianity - the sign of the Beast, the Antichrist.
In Kabbalah, 666 is the number of Sorat, the solar demon who opposes the Archangel Michael.

"888". According to the numerical value of the Hebrew letters, this is the number of Jesus, as opposed to 666 - the number of the Beast.