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# Number 6

🏷 Semitic numerology pun · symbol — by Gerry · May 2019 · 311 words

The number 6, especially in its derivation number 60, puns with “opposition” and “Satan” in Aramaic. Number 6 was made the “number of Satan”, simply because in Aramaic it is pronounced št like “Satan”. The Biblical character named “Satan” was originally the judical “opponent” & “accuser” in Job’s story, because both Satan’s & Job’s names mean “opponent”.

In Aramaic, 60 is štyn (instead of Hebrew ššym), so it puns with “Satan” & “opposition”. It is likely an important encryption pun number, because very often the Aramaic term for “sixty” is used in the Talmud.

The Satan character in the Old Testament is a pun with being an “opponent” for Job case in the heavenly court, and generally being a type of “hostile” spirit, as the word Satan means “opposition” & “hostility”. In the Old Testament he isn’t yet particularly evil though. Satan’s modern use for scaremongering was probably kickstarted in later times, by cobbling together a bogeyman with nonsense features that all pun with “Satan”. For a list of Satan puns (which all pun with Aramaic six & sixty as well), see the full Satan entry.

By contrast, the number 666 is not a homonym pun, but a numerological synonym pun: It spells trs, which is a synonym for Satan.

#### Hebrew, Aramaic štn = sixty; šṭn = opponent, Satan

שת št : six — Aramaic (Strong)

שתין štyn : sixty — Aramaic (Strong)

שטן šṭn : accuse, accuser, adversary, oppose — Old Hebrew (Strong)

שטן šṭn : adversary, opponent, accuser, Satan — Old Hebrew (Strong)

> …He announced it for sixty, and it was worth fifty…

> qry štyn wšwy ḥmšyn

> קרי שתין ושוי חמשין

> Bava Metzia 51a:7

> If the wicked ones arise and destroy the foundations which face the deeps, the righteous of the world…

> ˀm hšytyn šhm rwˀyn ˀt hthwm ˁmdw ršˁym wpgrwm ṣdyq hˁwlm wkw

> אם השיתין שהם רואין את התהום עמדו רשעים ופגרום צדיק העולם וכו

> Yalkut Shimoni 653:3

🏷 Semitic numerology pun · symbol