Hooray, we're having a baby!
Wonderful news. But immediately afterwards, we start thinking: when is the baby actually due?
Or: How long will the pregnancy last?
Sure, nine months, many people might answer.
But this is not true, as US scientists have been able to show.
The researchers led by Anne Marie Jukic from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences first developed a method that allows them to calculate the exact date on which the fertilised egg implants in the uterus. According to this method, the pregnancy lasts 280 days (or ten months).
If the date of fertilisation of the egg is known, an average of 266 days is calculated from this date until delivery.
Studies have now shown that the average duration of a pregnancy is only 268 days.
There are a number of instances where the Hebrew words in the Bible offer hidden information about the objects or people they represent.
Each letter of the Hebrew aleph contains three aspects.
Firstly, there are the usual simple letters that are used to form words. Then each letter also stands for a certain concept. The third aspect is the mathematical value of the letter.
Numerous Bible verses contain hidden messages in the Hebrew text that can be deciphered by exploring the meanings of the numbers they contain.
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. Hos 9:11 KJV
The Hebrew word for pregnancy is
herayon
herayon (pregnancy)
הֵרָיוֹן
5. ה He 5
20. ר Resch 200
10. י Yud 10
6. ו Vav 6
14. נ Nun 50
Σ 271
It has the same numerical value as the average duration of a human pregnancy, namely 271 days.
In Hebrew, the word for year,
shanah, refers to itself,
shanah (year)
שנה
21. שׂ שׁ Shin/Sin 300
14. נ Nun 50
5. ה He 5
Σ 355
because its gematria is 355, the number of whole days in a full lunar year (12 months).
The word ear,
ozen
ozen (ear)
אֹ֫זֶן
1. א Alef 1
7. ז Zayin 7
14. נ Nun 50
Σ 58
is from the same root as the word for balance, Hebrew
mozen.
The mechanism responsible for the balance of the body (vestibular apparatus) is in fact located in the inner ear.
Laban, the brother of Rebekah and father of Leah and Rachel, is one of the more menacing characters in the Torah. He is the only personal name in the Bible that is also the name of a colour.
Come and learn what Laban the Aramean did to our father Jacob. For Pharaoh issued his edict only against the men, but Laban tried to uproot them all, as it says: ‘An Aramean would have destroyed my father, and he went down to Egypt and became a nation there, great, powerful and populous. '
reads a passage from the Passover Haggadah.
At the very least, Laban deceived Jacob, tried to exploit him and chased after him when he fled.
He mixed his children, his wives, his religious beliefs, his language and his property. He idealised the maxim everything is possible, global village, as we would say today, where individuality is abandoned in favour of a collective identity.
Laban, the man who mixed everything, was to be called white long before the natural scientist Isaac Newton allowed sunlight to pass through a prism in 1671 to realise that white light is by no means as pure as many people had previously believed. White light split into several colours and must therefore consist of a mixture of several colours, he concluded.
In the beginning was the [information], and the [information] was with G-d, and the [information] was G-d. The same was in the beginning with G-d. All things were made by [it]; and without [it] was not any thing made that was made. In [it] was life; and the life was the light of men. John 1:1-4
Information is the common characteristic of all these examples. Nothing living functions without information.
John describes the production factor information, through which G-d created the world. Very precisely, concisely, everything is contained in these few sentences.
The written Hebrew language encompasses the genuine concept of G-d's plan and the reference to numerical values in the Hebrew Alefbet is a fact, regardless of whether one approaches the matter seriously or unseriously.
