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COINCIDENCES IN THE BIBLE AND IN BIBLICAL HEBREW
6 6 COINCIDENCES IN THE BIBLE AND IN BIBLICAL HEBREW

The two assumptions are:

• Words sharing the same root must somehow be interrelated. In other
words, numerous examples have demonstrably shown that words
with a common root are not so due to coincidence. If the relationship
among such root-sharing words is not immediately comprehensible, this
implies that the relationship needs be further explored, not that it is
nonexistent.
• The sum of the numerical values of the letters, comprising a given word,
occasionally delivers relevant information. This is demonstrated by four
simple examples right at the beginning of the book (refer to section
2.1), where the information concealed in the numerical values of the
letters constituting a word is undeniably related to its apparent revealed
meaning. Reading these examples, the reader may gain insight into the
general validity of this assumption, and thus become more open to the
less obvious, though more stunning, examples or coincidences intro-
duced in later chapters.

It is to be reemphasized that these two assumptions are not related, in any
way, to Jewish Gematria. The latter attempts to identify common grounds (or
shared meaning) to two or more words having equal numerical values for the
total sum of their constituent letters. Though we do not express our position
regarding this practice, it is important to assert that no such is attempted here.
The only qualification that we can deliver, as embodied by the above assumptions,

is that (based on numerous examples) the above assumptions are valid to a highly
credible degree.
Similarly unexplainable coincidences permeate biblical text, most often hidden
in visibly simplistic statements of facts, occasionally in bizarre names, which make
one wonder where all these coincidences truly originated.
The coincidences presented in this book are divided into four separate
categories:

• Coincidences in the Hebrew language that show design intended to
convey a message, often of a moral nature. The example just given with
regard to “sin” belongs to this category of coincidences.
• Coincidences in the Hebrew language that show design intended to
convey hidden information, occasionally such which cannot be expected
to be known in biblical times.