What is the significance of the number six in the Bible if any?

Answer 1

The Meaning of Numbers: The Number 6

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.

At any rate it is certain that man was created on the sixth day, and thus he has six impressed upon him. Moreover, six days were appointed to him for his labor; while one day is associated in sovereignty with the Lord God, as His rest.

Six, therefore, is the number of labor also, of man's labor as apart and distinct from God's rest. True, it marks the completion of Creation as God's work, and therefore the number is significant of secular completeness. The Sixth Commandment relates to the worst sin - murder. The sixth clause of the Lord's prayer treats of sin.

Answer 2

Six is the number for man because he was created on the sixth day. The sixth commandment tells us do not kill. on the other side of the coin, Both man and the serpent were created on the sixth day, therefore, the number six represents both man and rebellion and comes the number of the beast 666. In the Greek alphabet the number six is not represented by an alphabetic letter but is instead represented by a symbol called the "stigma." In Revelation 13:18 the number of the Beast is written not as 666 but is instead is written with the Greek symbols for 600 and 60 and 6.

Man is commanded to labor six days [Exodus 31:15]

The sixth commandment in the Ten Commandments is the sin of murder [Exodus 20:13]

The sixth clause in the prayer of the "Our Father/ Lord's Prayer" petitions that we not be led into sin and be delivered from evil. [Matthew 6:13]

The world turned dark beginning at the sixth hour Hebrew time (noon) when Christ was on the cross [Matthew 27:45; Mark 15:33; Luke 23:44]. In Roman time the sixth hour is 6-7AM when Jesus was being tried by the Roman governor Pilate [John 19:14].

Jesus suffered on the cross for six hours (as he suffered that man might be saved); from 9 AM, (see Mark 15:25) the hour of the first daily sacrifice in the Temple to 3 PM, (see Mark 15:33-34; Matthew 27:45; Luke 23:44) the hour of the last sacrifice, and gave up His life at the beginning of the 7th hour (the number of completion and fulfillment).

All six of the letters which represent the number system of the Roman Empire added together yield the number 666: I = 1; V= 5; X= 10; L= 50; C = 100; D= 500 [there is no letter/number M. 1000 was two Ds back to back which resembled an M].

Answer 3

God created the earth in six days and rested on seventh.

Answer 4

The number of the Beast is supposed to be 3 of them together. For more listen to Iron Maiden, number of the Beast