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CHAPTER 2 CASES OF DESIGN IN THE HEBREW LANGUAGE
CHAPTER 2 CASES OF DESIGN IN THE HEBREW LANGUAGE 49 49

“Evening” + “Night”: 347 / 705 = 49.22%

In other words, the numerical “linguistic weight” of morning + day implies that
light-time periods in the twenty-four-hour daily cycle constitute, on average,
50.78% of the complete daily cycle.

Does the figure 50.76% looks familiar from the previous discussion?
Heraion (Human Pregnancy)

Human pregnancy is known to last about nine months. When this period is
measured in days, there are two ways by which the medical profession measures
the period of pregnancy. One method is to measure human pregnancy from fer-
tilization time, which is commonly accepted to be, on average, 266 days. Another
method is to measure human pregnancy from the last menstrual period, which is
commonly accepted as 280 days.
The simple average (midpoint) between these two figures is 273 days (about

nine months).
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Human pregnancy is called heraion in Hebrew. This word derives from the
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root H.R.H, the same root that gives rise to variations of the verb le-harot (to
become impregnated). The word appears once in the Bible, in Hoshea 9:11: “As

for Efrayim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; No birth, and no pregnancy
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[heraion ] and no conception” (in our opinion, a bad translation). A variation of
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this word is heron, which is not commonly used in modern Hebrew. It appears
once in Genesis 3:16: “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your
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sorrow and your pregnancy [heronech ].”
Let’s sum up the values of the letters comprising the Hebrew word for preg-
nancy (heraion): 60

271 = (50 = ן) + (6 = ו) + (10 = י) + (200 = ר) + (5 = ה)

This value is not far off from the simple average of the two modern-day commonly
accepted durations of human pregnancy, which was calculated earlier (namely,
273 days).

Comments
1. As the writing of this book drew to completion, we realized that the relation-
ship of the numeric value of the Hebrew word for pregnancy to the duration
of human pregnancy had already been noted in an ancient Jewish source,