[ RadSafe ] Climate Change, physics and intelligent design --- OFF TOPIC

[McClung, Danny]

Be very careful of a misspelling of the Hebrew word for circumference.  You might not like the outcome...

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I have also heard that this is based on a trick in the text that the translators didn't know about. It relies on the use of Hebrew characters as numbers as well as letters.  The apparent misspelling of the word equivalent to "circumference", when divided by the correct spelling as numbers gives a correction factor that comes extremely close to the correct value. 

I went out on the net looking for the reference and got this:
"First, mathematically, take the etymology of the words (images lost)[heh vaw quof] and [vaw quof] (the Hebrew word used in this verse, versus the usual word for circumference), and you'll find that the ratio of their numeric value (via Gematria) [(5 + 6 + 100)/(6 + 100)] is 1.0471698, which multiplied by 3 is pi. "


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On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:58 AM, od at tlmq.com wrote:

>  A problem I have been told about recently: the description of the altar in Solomon's Temple (in Kings A', 7:23) states that it is round, 5 cubits in diameter and thirty in perimeter. Ergo, pi (د€)  = 3. Now, this might have been due to a miracle, but I doubt that that was the intention of the "being" when it dictated this particular passage.
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The Hebrew, qomah, which you have translated as "diameter" is generally translated as "height", thus nullifying your analysis.

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