From: Bruce Terry (terry@bible.acu.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 03 1995 - 15:52:43 EDT
Here is a presentation of Greek numerals as often found:
1 alpha 10 iota 100 rho
2 beta 20 kappa 200 sigma
3 gamma 30 lambda 300 tau
4 delta 40 mu 400 upsilon
5 epsilon 50 nu 500 phi
6 stigma/digamma 60 xi 600 chi
7 zeta 70 omicron 700 psi
8 eta 80 pi 800 omega
9 iota 90 koppa 900 sampi
Numerals were often distinquished from letters by putting a mark above them.
Numerals in the thousands were written by putting a mark below them instead of
above them.
Note that the alphabet was enhanced by the addition of 3 or 4 older letters:
either stigma or digamma for 6; koppa for 90; and sampi for 900.
Names could be assigned number values as in the following example:
IHSOUS = 10 + 8 + 200 + 70 + 400 + 200 = 888
No wonder the early Christians said that they met to celebrate Christ's
resurrection on the 8th day of the week!
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