What is the true meaning of the number of the beast 666? The answer will surprise you

We have all heard of the infamous number 666, which is also called the "number of the beast"In the New Testament and the number ofAntichrist.

As explained by the Youtube channel Numberphile , 666, actually, has no remarkable mathematical properties but if you analyze its history, it reveals something amazing about the way the Bible was originally written.

In a nutshell, 666 is used as a code, and not particularly intuitive, except for those who lived in the times of the New Testament. That text, in fact, was originally written in ancient Greek, where numbers are written as letters, as in Hebrew, the other main language of the original biblical texts.

For small numbers, the first letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha, beta, gamma, represent 1, 2 and 3. So, as in Roman numerals, when you want to form large numbers like 100, 1.000, 1.000.000, they are represented by their special combination of letters.

Now, in chapter 13 of the Apocalypse we read: "He who has understanding must count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: and its number is 666". So, translating, it is as if this part says: "I will make you a riddle, you have to calculate the number of the Beast".

Therefore, what does number 666 mean when we translate it, using the Greek alphabet?

Well, given the hatred of the Roman Empire at the time, and in particular of its leader, Nero Caesar, who was considered particularly evil, many historians have looked for references to this character in the biblical text, which was a product of his time.

In fact, the letters of 666 are actually written in Hebrew, which gives a higher meaning to numbers meaning words and words meaning numbers than Ancient Greek. Whoever wrote that passage was trying to tell us something. Simply put, if we translate the Hebrew spelling of 666, we actually write Neron Kesar, the Hebrew spelling of Nero Caesar.

Furthermore, even if we take into account the alternative spelling of the number of the beast, which was found in several early biblical texts with the number 616, we can translate it in the same way: Black Caesar.