In addition to count, the word can also mean to vote or decide by vote - because pebbles were also used as markers for votes as well as for counting things. Luke 14:28 is the other occurrence:ДЇor which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 1 It's a very uncommon word in the Bible (New Testament and Greek Septuagint Old Testament), only occurring twice. The indication here is, I think, not how we calculate the number itself, but rather how we add up the number to deduce or infer something. In this sense, psД“phizЕЌ literally meant something like 'to pebble' - though this form doesn't make sense to us in our time. The word is related to the noun П€бї†П†ОїП‚ ( psД“phos), meaning pebble - a device commonly used for counting things. How are we expected to 'calculate the number'?ДЄs someone has already noted, the dictionary meaning of П€О·П†ОЇО¶П‰ ( psД“phizЕЌ) is to count or add up. However, this seems to be one of the major reasons that Irenaeus rejects this reading. What is apparently interesting about 616 in particular is that Nero's name, in Latin, works out to 616 using gematria. According to the Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon, sixteen would be бј‘ОѕОєО±ОЇОґОµОєО±.ДЄs Soldarnal mentioned, the NET translation notes include some comments on manuscripts that include '616' or other numbers here. So I'm not sure where the alternate reading in the footnote comes from. This is also where the word hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia (fear of the number 666) comes from, as it's the concatenation of the transliterated Greek words above. ОµОѕО±ОєОїПѓО№ОїО№ ОµОѕО·ОєОїОЅП„О± ОµОѕ (six hundred sixty six) This was in both the NET Bible and the interlinear - the one at had it in a numeric shorthand form, though meaning the same thing.

The number itself also seems to be spelled out in Greek.

Symbolism - the number or its digits represent something symbolic.

Gematria - the number represents the sum of the letters in a name, if the letters were converted to their corresponding ordinal position in that alphabet.

Hampton Keathley, III, the author of The Beast and the False Prophet proposes two possible intents: This is the same word used in Luke 14:28 in which the builder of a tower will 'count the cost' to ensure he has enough to complete it.ДЄs for its usage in this passage, J.

H4397- ЧћЧњЧђЧљ MaLAK/A1375-malaka/G32- О±ОіОіОµО»ОїП‚ aggelos: to despatch as a deputy, a messenger, specifically of God, i.e.ОЁО·П†ОЇО¶П‰ (Strongs G5585) - to count with pebbles, to compute, calculate, reckon to give one's vote by casting a pebble into the urn to decide by voting. H3091- Ч™Ч”ЧџЧ©Ч•Чў YaHuWShuWAi/A3257-Yeshue/G2424- О№О·ПѓОїП… iesou: Deliverer, Eternal Self Existent Yahuwah personally saved, I AM open wide to free, preserve, avenge, defend, rescue in victory, YehowahвЂ™s Salvation, Prosperity, Liberty, Safety, Welfare, Health, Blessedness, Rejoicing, Nourish To Feed And Succor, Raised UpДЄ2458- shadar/G3992- ОµПЂОµОјП€О± epempsa: summon, sent, dispatch, reach the objective point, finish, complete, bestow, transmit, communicate, set apart, appoint, ordain, consecrate for mission, sent forth, liberate, settle, resolve, covenant, establish, uphold, present, abiding, enduring, continue, commit, purpose, wholly give to, devotion, dedication, loyalty, faithful, fidelity, dependable, reliable, restore

StrongвЂ™s Hebrew Numbers/Aramaic LWM Number Sequence: I am the root and the offspring of Dawid, as the bright, the morning star. I am the root and the tribe of Dawid and his people and the bright star of the morning.Д®theridge: I JESHU have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things before the churches. Magiera: I, Yeshue, have sent my angel to testify these with you before the churches. I am the root and offspring of Dawid: like the splendid star of the morning. Shining forth to guide, encircle, nourish in Truth.ДЄENT: I YвЂ™shua have sent my Messenger to testify to you these things before the assemblies. I AM complete to secure family, peoples, nations in Devotion. Interpretation based on the study: I AM Salvation, Faithful Guardian, Witness Of Union In Eternal Covenant.

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