What is the significance of this dreaded number

The number 666 or the “number of the beast” in the New Testament has no remarkable mathematical properties, but if we take a look at its origins, it reveals something interesting about the way the Bible was written. Apparently, the apocalyptic vision is not the only one to consider.

Basically, 666 is used as a not-so-subtle code, especially for the literati from the time of the writing of the New Testament. The text was originally written in ancient Greek, which, as everyone probably knows, used numbers written as letters. The same is true of Hebrew, the other main language in which the Bible was written. Therefore, each word also had a numerical meaning.

In the 13th chapter of the “Book of Revelation,” the number is mentioned thus: “Whoever has understanding to count the number of the beast; for it is the number of men. And its number is six hundred and sixty-six.”

According to those from Numberphilethis is almost a riddle that prompts you to find out the meaning of the number. The numbers 666 are written in Hebrew, which gives even greater meaning to numbers symbolizing words and words symbolizing numbers.

So, if you translate 666 into Hebrew words, you get Neron Kesar, that is, the spelling of the name Nero Caesar, the leader of the Roman Empire during that period (13 October 54 – 9 June 68). He is one of the most controversial and hated historical figures.

666 is a triangular number and the sum of the first 36 numbers

Furthermore, he allegedly set fire to Rome and was suspected of raping his mother. Only in Greece were there voices concerned with a different image. Thus, for Pausanias, Nero was an example of the justice of Plato’s statement that the great injustice “it does not start from ordinary people, but from a noble soul corrupted by a wrong education”.

Apparently, things are the same in the case of the alternative writing of the number of the beast, which in several biblical texts is 616.

“That adds to the complexity of the riddle and the secret. No one wants to write a book under the conditions of imperial persecution, in which it clearly says that the root of all evil is Nero Caesar”, it is explained to us in the clip above.

As for the mathematical properties, 666 is a triangular number and the sum of the first 36 numbers. Triangular numbers are those that can form an equilateral triangle. This is the first clue in decoding the number.

666 is also the sum of the squares of the first seven prime numbers. For an even more extensive explanation of the less demonic meaning of this controversial number, check out Numberphile’s explanation.