Among the Hebrew alphabet-position values of the letters in the first three words of Genesis 1:1, the even values total 98. This total is evenly divisible by 7.
Pattern 23 complements Pattern 22. Pattern 22 selects the odd alphabet-position values in the first three words, while this pattern selects the even alphabet-position values from the same letters.
Each Hebrew letter is assigned its position in the 22-letter Hebrew alphabet. Only the even alphabet-position values in the first three words are included:
The tables below show the alphabet-position value of every letter. The even-valued letters used in this pattern are highlighted.
| Genesis 1:1 | |
|---|---|
| Hebrew Word | Number of Letters |
| בראשית | 6 |
| ברא | 3 |
| אלהימ | 5 |
| את | 2 |
| השםימ | 5 |
| ואת | 3 |
| הארצ | 4 |
| Total Words: 7 | Total Letters: 28 |
| Traditional Hebrew Letter Values | Word Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 200 | 1 | 300 | 10 | 400 | 913 |
| 2 | 200 | 1 | 203 | |||
| 1 | 30 | 5 | 10 | 40 | 86 | |
| 1 | 400 | 401 | ||||
| 5 | 300 | 40 | 10 | 40 | 395 | |
| 6 | 1 | 400 | 407 | |||
| 5 | 1 | 200 | 90 | 296 | ||
| Verse Value Total | 2701 | |||||
| Hebrew Alphabet Positions | Word Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
| 1 | 21 |
|
| 76 |
|
|
| 1 | 23 | |||
| 1 |
| 5 |
| 13 | 41 | |
| 1 | 22 | 23 | ||||
| 5 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 62 | |
| 6 | 1 | 22 | 29 | |||
| 5 | 1 | 20 | 18 | 44 | ||
| Verse Position Total | 298 | |||||