House Church Talk - Re: HC-Talk- Re: Quote unquote

[NigelTree at aol.com]

Vanessa wrote:

> I admit I love the net, for now, but still, I worry about the fact that 'w'
> is the 6th letter of the hebrew alphabet, in which letters often represent
> numbers (think of those psalms numbered with the letters of the heb alph),
> so that www=666. Maybe sometime in the future, people will only be able to
> buy and sell through their www ID... 

Out of interest I found this on a website explaining the Jewish alphabet:
 
" I have received several e-mails pointing out that the numerical value of 
Vav (often transliterated as W) is 6, and therefore WWW has the numerical value 
of 666! It's an amusing notion, but Hebrew numbers just don't work that way. 
In Hebrew numerals, the position of the letter/digit is irrelevant; the letters 
are simply added up to determine the value. To say that Vav-Vav-Vav is six 
hundred and sixty-six would be like saying that the Roman numeral III is one 
hundred and eleven. The numerical value of Vav-Vav-Vav in Hebrew would be 
6+6+6=18, so WWW is equivalent to life! " (18 represents the Hebrew word for life).

Anyone have any further information?

Every blessing,

Nigel Tree
Prudhoe, Northumberland, UK