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Table 23.1. Numerical examples (with “counts” data) for matches between numerical
values of biblical Hebrew words and corresponding values of related major physical traits

* These examples are a small subset from a larger sample; not all animal names in biblical
Hebrew succumb to this linkage; possible reasons: only rarely does a single number of
chromosomes characterizes all branches of a given species; also, not all species names in
the Bible have interpretations agreed by all.

While these examples and many others may be perceived as a collection of
anecdotes (“cherry picking”, in statistical parlance), statistical analyses detailed
earlier in this book, which refer to data measured on continuous scales, seem to
suggest that the Hebrew tradition may have deeper roots in reality than initially