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INTRODUCTION
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over (either in terms of their nature or their number)? In this case, formulating
hypotheses for statistical testing may turn out to be futile; given the data, the
size of the sample may be just too small to carry out statistical analysis with any
acceptable degree of credibility. As a result, one would be at loss to convincingly

persuade people trained in the scientific way of thinking that one hypothesis is true
and the other is not. All one can do in such circumstances is call the observations
“coincidences,” and let each individual decide what the revealed coincidences
really imply.
The objective of this book is just that: to present peculiar coincidences in the
Bible and in the biblical Hebrew, and let the reader determine what the implica-
tions of these coincidences could be.
There is, however, one exception to the general qualification of the coincidences

in this book, as just delineated: several statistical analyses have been performed
with regard to some coincidences, and the results are displayed and explained in
this book. We believe that these analyses would withstand any rigorous statistical
scrutiny. It is doubtful that the results from these analyses fall in the category of

“coincidences.” Yet they are displayed, for the first time, in this book, out of the
author’s conviction that these statistical analyses have serious implications as to
how the other coincidences introduced here should be appreciated.
The statistical analyses are scattered throughout this book. They are commonly
accompanied by well-explained plots that render the implications of the analyses
easily accessible, even to the non-technically oriented reader. These plots may be
traced for their location by the table of figures placed adjacent to the table of

contents. In these plots, note that the term “log” always refers to the natural loga-
rithm—that is “log(x)” always means “log e(x).”
Prior to immersing ourselves in the arduous process of outlining a general
characterization of the coincidences addressed in this book, it is imperative that
we qualify what type of coincidences we are not dealing with. This book is not
about Gematria, nor does it address what has become to be known as the Bible
Code. Neither do we deal with possible fulfilling of biblical prophecies.

Jewish Gematria refers to a well-known practice, in Jewish mysticism, based
on the assumption that two Hebrew words are somehow interrelated if the total

numerical values of their constituent letters are equal. As explained in the first
chapter of Part I of the book, each letter in the Hebrew language carries with
it a certain numerical value. In “doing” Gematria, one assumes that there is
some mystical implication to the fact that two given Hebrew words have equal
numerical values. For example, in the Hebrew language, the word Elohim (God)
has a numerical value of 86, the same as the Hebrew word for “the nature” (one
word in Hebrew). Therefore, one would deduce that God is the source of all laws

of nature, and that this fact is reflected by the numerical equivalence of the two