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What Does 6 Mean in the Bible Read through 3 lenses
A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out.
What does the number 6 mean in the Bible?
The number 6: the number of man and the flesh, matter lacking the 7th that would lift it into spirit
Esoteric lens · 1 Samuel 17:4
Where the number 6 appears in the Bible
1 Chronicles 3:4
six were born to him in Hebron; and he reigned there seven years and six months. He reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem;
1 Kings 6:6
The lowest floor was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around, that the beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.
2 Chronicles 1:17
They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty. They also exported them to the Hittite kings and the Syrian kings.
The number 6 through 3 lenses
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Esoteric · 1 Samuel 17:4
Esoteric
The giant is the swollen power of the flesh, the ego grown huge and armored, stepping out of the lower nature to challenge the inner man. His name carries exile, the self cast out of its true ground and towering over the field of the mind.
His measure gives him away. The number 6 is the number of man in the body, matter without the seventh that would crown it into spirit, and 6 cubits and a span is the flesh stretched to its limit yet still one span short of the sacred. However tall the animal self grows, it stays earthbound, a mountain of muscle that never reaches the spirit above it.
- Goliath: the ego swollen to giant size, the animal self of the body armored and towering over the inner life
- Gath: the winepress, the lower nature that crushes and presses the man down into matter
- The number 6: the number of man and the flesh, matter lacking the 7th that would lift it into spirit
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Protestant · 1 Timothy 4:12
Protestant
Being written off for youth is answered by a life the congregation can copy, not by arguing back. The word behind example is typos, the stamp that presses a shape into wax, so what these believers become carries the young leader's mark.
- Six areas are named: speech, way of life, love, spirit, faith, purity. Four of them run below the surface, where no one could fake them for long. None of this earns God's approval; a person stands accepted before Him through Christ, received by trust, and the life named here grows out of that standing.
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Esoteric · Genesis 25:1
Names & Places
After Sarah has died and Isaac is married, Abraham takes another wife named Keturah. Her name means incense, the sweet smoke that rises up to God. Even in old age, the man God promised would be the father of many nations is still growing a family.
- Keturah bears him six sons: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. Jokshan becomes the father of Sheba and Dedan, and Dedan's line becomes the Asshurim, the Letushim and the Leummim. Midian's sons are Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah. These names turn into the tribes of the Arabian desert and the incense trade routes. Sheba later sends its famous queen to Solomon with spices. Midian later gives Moses a home, a wife and a wise father-in-law, though it also becomes Israel's enemy in the days of Gideon. So the promise of many nations is real, and these cousin nations keep crossing Israel's story.
Yet the passage draws a clear line. Abraham gives everything he owns to Isaac, the son of the promise. To the sons of his other wives he gives gifts, and while he is still alive he sends them away from Isaac, eastward, to the land of the east. They are blessed, but they are not the heir. Once again the east is the direction of those who go out from the center of the promise. The line of blessing runs through one son, so that later, through that one line, blessing can come back to all the others.
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What the number 6 means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisNumber six: Six is shown by the hexagram: one upward and one downward triangle interlocked, joining heaven and earth.Genesis 1:24-31
- PsychoanalysisSix sons for Leah: Leah bears six sons, including Judah and Levi (kings and priests). The rejected feminine bears the future.Genesis 30:17-21
- EsotericSix sons (Leah's six): six spots on the brain's left side, six star signs.Genesis 30:17-21
Commentaries on the number 6
Bullinger, Number in Scripture (1921) · Six
Six is either 4 plus 2, i.e., man's world (4) with man's enmity to God (2) brought in: or it is 5 plus 1, the grace of God made of none effect by man's addition to it, or perversion, or corruption of it: or it is 7 minus 1, i.e., man's coming short of spiritual perfection. In any case, therefore, it has to do with man; it is the number of imperfection; the human number; the number of MAN as destitute of God, without God, without Christ.
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