This title may remind us of the scripture in Revelation 13:18

“This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.”

This is one of the references to the use of the Gematria in the Scriptures.

So what is the Gematria?

The Gematria is a study that treats Hebrew letters by way of their numerical meaning and finds relationships between words based on numeric equivalents. 

Recall that each letter in the Hebrew alef bet (alphabet) has a numerical value see charts below.

Hebrew rabbis, teachers, scholars, and sages placed their seal of approval on the use of the Gematria a long time ago but many in the west dismiss such conclusions from this type of study, even though there are Universities in the East that study the Gematria. 

For an example of this Gematria we can look at Moses and his name in Hebrew which is Moshe sometimes written Mosheh and Moshah משׁה   

MOSES  – MOSHAH משׁה   

Exodus 2:10:  “And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.”

Original Word: משֶׁה
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Mosheh
Pronunciation: moh-SHEH
Phonetic Spelling: (mo-sheh’)
KJV: Moses
NASB: Moses, Moses’
Word Origin: [from H4871 (מָשָׁה – drew)]

1. drawing out (of the water), i.e. rescued
2. Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance 4872

Moses From mashah; drawing out (of the water),

i.e. Rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver — Moses.

Word Origin from mashah
Definition a great Isr. leader, prophet and lawgiver

The first definition of Moses/Mosheh is, draw out of water.  Being given a name that means to draw out of water does not sound very significant or noteworthy, however the ancient rabbis and sages saw much more to the name Moses.

When Pharaoh’s daughter drew Moses out of water, specifically the waters of the Nile river, she was drawing him out of the one of the most significant Egyptian gods. The Egyptian god of the Nile was known as Hepi and was to them a fertility god, celebrated and worshipped specifically during the annual flooding of the Nile, when the floodwaters deposited fertile soil on the river banks.  

With this in mind, let’s take a deeper look at why Pharaoh’s daughter was at the Nile.  

In the account in the second chapter of Exodus and verse 5 we are told that she came to wash herself or to bathe.

For Pharaoh’s daughter to take a bath or to clean herself, in the sacred waters was very unlikely, she was a princess who took luxurious baths filled with all sorts of exotic fragrances like myrrh and frankincense. We may have again misread the meaning of the Hebrew which has been lost in translation.

The word used in Hebrew here for washing or bathing is 

rachats 

which means to pour water upon yourself; (like an anointing). 

Strongs 7364 (also lirhos – wash the feet or other body parts.)

Original Word: רָחַץ
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: rachats
Pronunciation: rah-KHATS
Phonetic Spelling: (raw-khats’)

In those days, when the season came for the Nile to overflow, it was a signal that Hepi had arrived and it was believed she made women pregnant. So it was quite possible that she went to the Nile just at this specific time because women would anoint themselves with water from the Nile, hoping Hepi would bring about a pregnancy.  With this picture in mind, when the daughter of Pharaoh finds a baby in a basket floating down the Nile, it must have seemed it was a gift from the god Hepi.  She knew she would face criticism because it was a Hebrew child, so she cleverly named him Moses/Mosheh… drew out of the waters… of the Nile making it clearly appear as the baby was a gift from Hepi.  

Interestingly, the name Moses, also means to separate and we know that he was actually drawn away from the gods of Egypt, separated from them unto the One True God of the Israelites. Moshe /Moses comes from the same root word as does Messiah and we know that Moses was a picture of the Messiah; in the same way as Moses would free his people delivering them from slavery in Egypt, the Messiah would come and free us, delivering us from the bondage of our sins.

Examining the numerical value of the Hebrew letters in the name

Mosheh/ Moses indicates that he would have a long life.  

The numerical value of the name Mosheh/Moses is

Mem = 40, Shin = 300 and Hei = 5 for a total of 345.  

(remember there are no vowels in Hebrew alefbet.)

Scripture records that Mosheh/Moses lived to be 120 years old. 

In Hebrew the word for 120  is beshagam 

which is spelled בְּשַׁגַּם

Beth = 2, Shin = 300, Gimmel = 3 and Mem = 40 for a total of 345. 

And as we understand the definition of Gematria is a study that treats Hebrew letters by way of their numerical meaning and finds relationships between words based on numeric equivalents this is a notable example.

Moses/Mosheh is known as, 

Mosheh Rabeynu 

meaning 

Moses our teacher.  

As we saw above the numerical value of Moses is 345,

the numerical value of the word for teacher/ rabeynu is

Resh = 200, Beth = 2, Yod = 10,  Nun = 50, Vav = 6 for a total of 268.   

If we add 345 + 268,  it comes to 613.  

613 is the number of commandments in the Torah and we know it was Moses/Mosheh who presented these commandments to His people. Here His means the Almighty and spelling the name Mosheh /Moses backward from

m sh h (no vowels) h sh m gives the name Hashem

which is a Hebrew term for the Almighty meaning

The Name.

Hashem: The Name 2044

Original Word: הָשֵׁם
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Hashem
Pronunciation: hah-SHEM
Phonetic Spelling: (haw-shame’)

There is another example of the use of the Gematria also in Exodus19:20. And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses [up] to the top of the mount, and Moses went up.

We may have missed the significance of the fact that

Moses went up Mt. Sinai and

God came down to Mt. Sinai. 

Specifically and most importantly this was

a meeting between heaven and earth.

There are other places in the Bible where a meeting between heaven and earth is recorded. One is in Genesis 28:12/13:  And he (Jacob) dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

Sinai Strong’s Hebrew: 5514. סִינַי (Sinay) 

is spelled Samek סִינַ֖י

Yod Nun Yod = 60, 

Yod = 10, Nun = 50, Yod = 10

which gives a total numerical value of 130. 

Ladder in Strongs 5551 Hebrew is sulam  סֻלָּם֙

which is spelled

Samek = 60, Lamed = 30, and Mem = 40,

and also has a numerical value of 130. 

There is a relationship in the number 130 between the ladder of Jacob and Mt. Sinai which is a connection between heaven and earth. 

There is a further connection with a Hebrew word that also has the value of the number 130 and it describes what happens when heaven and earth connect or our heavenly Father connects with His children.

It is the Hebrew word “alal” (עלל) which signifies a connection between heaven and earth, often used in contexts that illustrate divine interaction or presence. It reflects themes of elevation and divine authority, emphasizing the relationship between the spiritual and physical realms. This word  ‘alal is spelled 

עלל – Ayin = 70, Lamed = 30, and Lamed = 30, a value of  130. 

This Hebrew word “alal” (עַלָּל) 5764

also refers to a nursing mother or a woman who is suckling her infant. It emphasizes the bond and care between a mother and her nursing child, highlighting the nurturing aspect of motherhood.

What a beautiful picture we are given here, that when our Heavenly Father connects with us there is ‘alal, a bonding and nurturing towards us as His beloved children while we are in His divine presence.

Just maybe there’s more to numbers than we thought?

Shalom, shalom mishpachah/family

and cheverim/friends!

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NOT Religion.

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