Biblical numerology Biblical numerology Biblical numerology is the use of numbers for their symbolic value in biblical texts - for example, the seven days of creation in Genesis 1. While many ancient languages, religions, and philosophies contained numeric interpretation of events, words, and names, this article is concerned with those uniquely affecting Judeo-Christian beliefs. Although Greek culture was well-known to scholars in the first centuries BC and AD in the Middle East, Greek ideas about numerology do not seem to have permeated Jewish and Christian beliefs. 3: The implication of three is "perfection" or "holiness."(e.g. (). 4: Four signifies a sense of
Numerology (Ismailism) Numerology (Ismailism) Numerology is an element of Ismailis belief; the idea that numbers have religious meanings. The number seven plays a general role in the theology of the Ismā'īliyya, including mystical speculations that there are seven heavens, seven continents, seven orifices in the skull, seven days in a week, seven prophets, and so forth. Old Ismaili doctrine holds that divine revelation had been given in six periods (daur) entrusted to six prophets, also called "Natiq" (Speaker), who were commissioned to preach a religion of law to their respective communities. While the "Natiq" was concerned with the rites and outward shape