Symbolic numbers in the Bible like 12 and 40, can you help me?
The Bible has a lot of reoccuring numbers like 12, 40, 3 and I think maybe 7. I need some examples and maybe even references if you got them. I can easily use a bible search engine if you can just give me some instances … Such as the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 stones God told the priests to lay down when they were building the altar.
Thanks so much!
2 Signifies solidly confirming a matter. (Revelation 11:3, 4;
compare Deuteronomy 17:6.)
3 Denotes emphasis. Also indicates intensity.
(Revelation 4:8; 8:13; 16:13, 19)
4 Signifies universalness or foursquareness in symmetry.
(Revelation 4:6; 7:1, 2; 9:14; 20:8; 21:16)
6 Signifies imperfection, something not normal, monstrous.
(Revelation 13:18; compare 2 Samuel 21:20.)
7 Signifies divinely determined completeness, as to
Jehovah’s purposes or to Satan’s. (Revelation 1:4, 12, 16;
4:5; 5:1, 6; 10:3, 4; 12:3)
10 Signifies allness or completeness in a physical way, as to
things on earth. (Revelation 2:10; 12:3; 13:1;
17:3, 12, 16)
12 Signifies a divinely constituted organization either in the
heavens or on the earth. (Revelation 7:5-8; 12:1;
21:12, 16; 22:2)
24 Signifies Jehovah’s abundant (doubled) organizational
arrangement. (Revelation 4:4)
