In the Textus Receptus manuscripts of the New Testament, the Book of Revelation ( 13:17–18) cryptically asserts 666 to be 'the man's number' or 'the number of a man' (depending on how the text is translated) associated with the Beast, an antagonistic creature that appears briefly about two-thirds into the apocalyptic vision. The Roman numeral for 666, DCLXVI, has exactly one occurrence of all symbols whose value is less than 1000 in decreasing order (D = 500, C = 100, L = 50, X = 10, V = 5, I = 1). In mathematics Ħ66 is the sum of the first 36 natural numbers ( ∑ i = 1 36 i is 666. In Christianity, 666 is called the ' number of the beast' in (most manuscripts of) chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation of the New Testament. Words We're Watching talks about words we are increasingly seeing in use but that have not yet met our criteria for entry.← 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 →Ħ66 ( six hundred sixty-six) is the natural number following 665 and preceding 667. And while that news might be disturbing in a financial way, to people with an interest in, say, money and American markets, that fact was overshadowed on Twitter by the shadow of the beast, the Lord of the Underworld, the Devil himself.īecause, you know, 666 is the mark of the beast, which, no big deal, identifies followers of the Antichrist. On Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 666 points.

The occurrence of “666” is sometimes viewed an invocation of Satan and regarded as cursed. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

In the King James Version the assignment of the number is phrased thusly: The number 666 is identified as the Number of the Beast as mentioned in the Book of Revelation (13:15–18).

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