What is the significance of the number 16?

Answer 1

A:A modern interpretation is that the number 16 means 'love'. Of course, we should not for a moment think that the biblical authors had this meaning in mind when they wrote, but modern readers look for meanings even when none exists, so for them, 16 means love in The Bible.

The Bible does indeed make use of numerology, and in those cases we can find reasons for believing the biblical authors really did consciously have specific meanings in mind. The next number in sequence is an example of this. The number 17 was a magic number in the Book of Genesis, as we can see by looking at the ages of the patriarchs or some of the other biblical characters:

1. Abraham lived to 175 (5 X 5 X 7)
2. Isaac lived to 180 (6 X 6 X 5)
3. Jacob lived to 147 (7 X 7 X 3

• Each lifespan involves a perfect square (5, 6, then 7 in a numeric series),
• the third factor also forms a series (7, 5, 3)
• in each case the sum of the factors is 17.

Then we find that Genesis says Sarah lived to 127 years, which is the sum of these consecutive square numbers plus 17 (127 = 52 +62 + 72 + 17).

There are other examples, such as the number 7. No such meaning can be found for the number 16, but we can have fun looking at various retrospective meanings of numbers and seeing how many we can come up with.

Answer 2

it is a perfect square, and has many mathematical operations.

Answer 3

In the King James version

neither the words - one hundred and sixty one - nor the words - one hundred and sixty and one - nor any form of words meaning 161 appear anywhere.

Answer 4

16 is the number of love in the Bible.

Answer 5

Love