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This page is my attempt to track down the meaning of 666, primarily from it's Hebrew origin. I started this study a few days ago. Fasten your seat belts, you're in for quite a ride!
666 = 600+60+6, in Hebrew (read from right to left), that's ...
תרסו
TR - Tav (ת 400) + Resh (ר200)
S - Samech (ס 60)
V - Vav (ו 6) (could also be Waw)
There is no single proper Hebrew letter for the number 600, though in more modern times the 'final Mem' has taken on that roll ... but, we must bear in mind that the 'final Mem' is -only- used at the END of a word, not at the beginning as we see here. Generally speaking, even today, the correct Hebrew letters are TR (תר) being the equivalent of 600.
According to "Do It In Hebrew" website (graphic snapshot above), the Hebrew for the letters תרסו (English: TRSV) have a meaning, which are the words: "Destroy it".
From Sefaria's website I found several instances of these four Hebrew letters converted to the numbers: 666. If these links to Sefaria's site don't work -- > go to Sefaria.org and type in the four Hebrew letters תרסו or the number 666 in their search box ... תרסו TEXTS https://www.sefaria.org/search?q=תרסו&tab=text&tvar=1&tsort=relevance&svar=1&ssort=relevance
תרסו SHEETS https://www.sefaria.org/search?q=תרסו&tab=sheet&tvar=1&tsort=relevance&svar=1&ssort=relevance
666 TEXTS (9) https://www.sefaria.org/search?q=666&tab=text&tvar=1&tsort=relevance&svar=1&ssort=relevance
666 SHEETS (5) https://www.sefaria.org/search?q=666&tab=sheet&tvar=1&tsort=relevance&svar=1&ssort=relevance
TRSV - Tarasov
On YouTube I found a woman's channel by the name of: Moran Tarasov (TaRaSoV) ... with these four Hebrew letters in her subtitling for two videos, which turns out to be her last name. This tells me how the word TRSV would be spelled in English, which is: TaRaSoV (Tarasov).
According to a couple of websites (links below) the name is quite common, and ancient, and although primarily Russian, it's thought to hail from Greece. One of it's ancient meanings, they say, means "forest goddess" (I assume: Tara-sov).
However, if I look at a potential English version for "Tara" it looks & sounds very much like the English word "Terra" (as in Terra Firma - meaning Earth). If the feminine of the Russian or Greek means "forest", is it possible then that the masculine may mean "earth"? And, could the suffix (ending) "sov", which reminds me of our English word "sovereign", be the word for "goddess" (feminine) or god (masculine)? One page says if the word is spelled Tarasoff it is feminine (aka: goddess) ... but if spelled Tarasov it is masculine (aka: god). So, the masculine name "Tarasov" would mean earth god, or "god of the earth". Does that bring anyone (satan) to mind, who is called the (temporary) ruler of this earth? NOT to be confused with the true God, these would be fake "god/s" with a small "g".
Apparently the suffix -ov means "son of" so Taras-ov means "son of Taras" But if Tara (Terra) means "god" then this could also take on the meaning of "son of god", as in, a fake son of a fake god, not the true Son of God - Who is Jesus/Yeshua. Again, small "g" for the fake "god".
As stated on one website, here are some derivatives of the surname Tarasov: "Historians find in the ancient archives set mentions of the Tarasov family. They also learn the name Taras, the origin and the set of derivatives from it. Meet: Tarasenkov, Tarasenko, Tarasevich and others."
And more: Tarashas, Taraskin, Tarasyuk, Tarasik.
Some of them have the required letters of TRSV, some have extras like N, K, CH (vowels not included in Hebrew).
"I want to talk about the origin of the name Tarasov. Some researchers are sure that Taras is a derivative word from Tara. Tara was called the forest goddess. She was also the patroness of her "own" trees (oak, ash, birch). ...
... The name of Tarasov is ancient. The name Taras came from Greece and meant a person who has a spiritual connection with God. Another interpretation of the name is a rebellious man, showing his will, a rebel." < -- 0.o
More about the meaning/ancestry can be found here ...
https://luciafontaines.com/novosti-i-obschestvo/76599-o-proishozhdenii-familii-tarasov-eto-interesno.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasov
One person that is from the wiki list above is of particular interest due to his beliefs, Alexander Tarasov ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tarasov
Am I saying he is *the* man satan will enter into? NO, of course not LOL, just interesting is all. It's likely someone entirely different and not on the scene yet!
Here's Alexander Tarasov's website in English http://www.screen.ru/Tarasov/english.htm
And here it is in Russian http://www.screen.ru/Tarasov/
Александр Тарасов (Russian: Alexander Tarasov, note the "B" instead of "v", which is a typical letter switch even in Hebrew!). I only show his web links because it shows the Russian version of the name Tarasov.
There's another Alexander Tarasov that has a YouTube channel and likes to display his crazy antic therein ... here's an article on one such instance http://scribol.com/anthropology-and-history/bizarre-and-offbeat-news/plaster-bath-prank-russian-builder-alexander-tarasov/
Apparently the video & YT channel are no longer available.
I found some fascinating, relevant, and interesting speculation that the surname Tarasov comes from a Jewish ancestry, namely Denmark (tribe of Dan?): "His brother and his son both bear Jewish names, while Viggo himself bears a Nordic one, which is most prevalent in Denmark. It's possible that the Tarasov family is at least partly Jewish (there's rich history to Jews in Russia, as well as to antisemitic attitudes)."
More here ... https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/8hffch/john_wick_a_theory_on_the_tarasov_familys_origins/
Why do I point this out? Because I don't believe the Jews/Israelites will accept anyone but a Jew/Israelite as their king during Jacob's trouble. This man, whoever he is, will be indwelt by satan himself. The fact that TRSV (Tarasov) may actually stem from a tribe of Israel, probably Dan, who BTW, some of the early church fathers also believed he would come out from, gives it a lot more weight than it being a name of either solely Russian or Greek origin.
In Genesis 49 KJV we find the "blessings" Jacob gave to his 12 sons, does any imply "destroy"? Some of the early church fathers believed that from Dan the antichrist would arise. "Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD." {Genesis 49:16-18 KJV} https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/gen/49/1/s_49001
And then there's this from a Catholic website (NewAdvent) of early church fathers, I'm quoting a whole section next ...
CHURCH FATHERS: On Christ and Antichrist (Hippolytus)
"14. Thus did the Scriptures preach before-time of this lion and lion's cub. And in like manner also we find it written regarding Antichrist. For Moses speaks thus: "Dan is a lion's cub, and he shall leap from Bashan." Deuteronomy 33:22 KJV But that no one may err by supposing that this is said of the Saviour, let him attend carefully to the matter. "Dan," he says, "is a lion's cub; "and in naming the tribe of Dan, he declared clearly the tribe from which Antichrist is destined to spring. For as Christ springs from the tribe of Judah, so Antichrist is to spring from the tribe of Dan. And that the case stands thus, we see also from the words of Jacob: "Let Dan be a serpent, lying upon the ground, biting the horse's heel." Genesis 49:17 KJV What, then, is meant by the serpent but Antichrist, that deceiver who is mentioned in Genesis KJV, Genesis 3:1 KJV who deceived Eve and supplanted Adam (πτερνι'σας, bruised Adam's heel)? But since it is necessary to prove this assertion by sufficient testimony, we shall not shrink from the task."
"15. That it is in reality out of the tribe of Dan, then, that that tyrant and king, that dread judge, that son of the devil, is destined to spring and arise, the prophet testifies when he says, "Dan shall judge his people, as (he is) also one tribe in Israel." Genesis 49:16 KJV But some one may say that this refers to Samson, who sprang from the tribe of Dan, and judged the people twenty years. Well, the prophecy had its partial fulfilment in Samson, but its complete fulfilment is reserved for Antichrist. For Jeremiah also speaks to this effect: "From Dan we are to hear the sound of the swiftness of his horses: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing, of the driving of his horses." Jeremiah 8:16 KJV And another prophet says: "He shall gather together all his strength, from the east even to the west. They whom he calls, and they whom he calls not, shall go with him. He shall make the sea white with the sails of his ships, and the plain black with the shields of his armaments. And whosoever shall oppose him in war shall fall by the sword." That these things, then, are said of no one else but that tyrant, and shameless one, and adversary of God, we shall show in what follows." Source ... http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0516.htm {NOTE: Because I use a script that you can mouse-over scriptures to read right here on the page, I've added KJV to the end of scripture references that are not in the actual article's text, click the article link above to read it as is.}
And here's what some Orthodox Christians believe and quote from others of days past ...
"The Antichrist will be a mockery and parody of the true Christ, the Lord Jesus. Early Church saints such as St. Irenaeus, St. Jerome, and St. Ambrose and others hold that the Antichrist will be a Jew, as Jesus was, but will be born from the wrong tribe, not from the Tribe of Judah, but from the Tribe of *Dan.* -1- Both St. John of Damascus and St. Ephraim the Syrian believe that the Antichrist—“the offspring of fornication”— will be born, not of a holy virgin, but “of prostitution” from an immoral, sinful, “defiled maiden”.2"
Source ... http://orthochristian.com/106805.html {NOTE: Because I use a script that you can mouseover scriptures to read right here on the page, I've added KJV to the end of scripture references that are not in the actual article's text, click the article link above to read it as is. I've have had to put *Dan.* within asterisks and their reference to 1 as -1- to avoid the script kicking into the book by the same name.}
There is a common error (as seen in the Orthodox quote above) that I would like to correct ... Jesus was a legitimate "Jew", which is short for the tribe of Judah; Dan is a different tribe entirely, though he was also a son of Jacob. Both of these tribes (sons of Jacob) are rightfully called "Israel" as God changed their father's name from Jacob to Israel {Gen 32:28 KJV} ... but they are not both "Jews", Jesus is a Jew (of the tribe or son named Judah), and Dan is a Danite (of the tribe or son named Dan). Jesus {Yeshua, His Hebrew/Jewish name} is the rightful Heir to the throne of king David ... if someone usurps it before His second coming it would be someone from Israeli ancestry, one who can prove his heritage back to one of the 12 tribes (sons) of Israel (Jacob). Yeshua {Jesus' Hebrew/Jewish name} means "Salvation". Dan, who was the son of a handmaid (Bilhah, maid to Rachel), means "judge". If you do a study on Jacob's son Dan you won't be surprised as to why many church fathers believed he would be the final or ultimate antichrist. Later I do quote where Paul refers to himself as a "Jew" even though he is from the tribe of Dan but though born in Tarsus (a Roman city, thus he had Roman citizenship), he was raised in Jerusalem, Israel, as he said. People in the land today are also called "Jews" because most do not know which of the 12 tribes they originate from (except some of the priestly tribe of Levi). For Paul's statements you can look those up in Acts 21:39 KJV & Acts 22:3 KJV.
And more yet ...
Irenaeus ('Heresies' Vol. 302)
Irenaeus ("Against Heresies," Book V, Chap. 30)
Hippolytus ('De Christo et Antichristo', pp. 14,15)
""There are different answers to the question whether the Antichrist will be a Jew or a heathen. That he will be a Jew, and apparently of the tribe of Dan, Irenaeus based on Jer. 8:16 KJV and the absence of that tribe in Rev. 7:5-8 KJV. Hippolytus grounded it upon Deut. 33:22 KJV; Gen. 49:16-17 KJV, and the consideration that as the opposite to Christ he must descend from Israel. Ambrose refers to John 5:43 KJV; Prof. Schlatter to II Thess. 2:4 KJV; that he sets himself in the temple of God, not of idols." (Erich Sauer, The Triumph of the Crucified, p. 119)" "Dan means "judge"".
Source ... https://watch.pairsite.com/dan.html {NOTE: Because I use a script that you can mouseover scriptures to read right here on the page, I've added KJV to the end of scripture references that are not in the actual article's text, click the article link above to read it as is.}
Jewish Encyclopedia on the tribe of Dan ...
Dan is "Jacob's fifth son" by Rachel's handmaid, Bilhah {Genesis 30:3-6 KJV}.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4866-dan
And now, I have to ask this question (being a weak student of Hebrew) could it be that "fifth" signifies after the door (dalet = 4 = Christ) is closed?
"And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, [Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan." {Genesis 30:1-6 KJV}
Did you know that the "tribe of Dan" is NOT mentioned in the list of 12,000 virgin males of the Israelites (worldwide) x 12 tribes sealed in Revelation 7:3-8 KJV? Two of the tribes are Joseph's sons: Joseph (Ephraim) and Manasses (Manasseh). The tribe of Dan is very much tied to the Hebrew date of "Tu B'Av", links from my three 2016 blog articles at the bottom of this page ;o}
And now, on to something completely different! Using Jeff Benner's paleo-Hebrew chart to get the ancient paleo/picto letter "Picture & Meanings" ...
https://www.ancient-hebrew.org/alphabet_chart.html
ת TAV 400 Crossed Sticks: mark, sign, signal, monument
ר RESH 200 Head of a Man: first, top, beginning
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600 Mark/sign in or on his head?
ס SAMECH 60 (Sin) Thorn: grab, hate, protect
ו VAV 6 Tent Peg: add, secure, hook
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666 {Reminds me of Ezekiel 38-39 KJV} ...
"And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts [of armour, even] a great company [with] bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:" {Ezekiel 38:4 KJV, read the whole chapter, Gog of the land of Magog.}
When looking up if there's any scripture in the bible that contains both "mark" and "head", I found this ... "As for you, son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to a city." {Ezekiel 21:19 ESV, read the whole chapter, in the KJV as well!} https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=mark+head&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1
Looking that up in the KJV I get this, read the whole chapter ... https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/eze/21/19/s_823019
Other versions ... https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/eze/21/19/p0/t_bibles_823019
Where in the bible do we see reference to a "destroyer"? Abaddon (Hebrew) & Apollyon (Greek) both mean "destroyer" ...
"And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon." {Revelation 9:11 KJV} https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/rev/9/11/s_1176011
Therefore, it stands to reason that the third character in this upcoming *UNholy trinity* of this unfolding prophecy is also a "destroyer" and since he is the "god of this earth" ... what is "it" that he would want to destroy for which the meaning of the four Hebrew letters of his name is: "destroy it"? EARTH. If you can't beat 'em, destroy 'em ... right!? That'll be his mission ... ?why? ... because if he fails, and he will fail, he will spend a 1000 years in the abyss (chained in hell) until he's loosed for a short time and that will lead to his final destruction in the lake of fire!
And then there's this to consider -- > three unclean spirits - like frogs - dragon, beast, false prophet ...
"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs [come] out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet." {Revelation 16:13 KJV}
-- > dragon, beast, false prophet ...
This means there are THREE entities, one of whom, the "dragon" (satan), will indwell, the antichrist "king" perhaps!? The second will likely be a "beast" (peoples, kingdoms or nations) of whom the "king" will control; or he could be a man like a "general" in charge of an army. And the third will be a "false prophet" speaking as though from God but will be speaking the lies of the devil, satan. These THREE are a false representation of the Holy Trinity that is our Triune God. In other words, the "dragon" represents God (rather god, satan, the devil); the "beast" represents those peoples or nations under the control of that false god &/or those who took the mark of the beast and aligned themselves with it &/or a commander of an army; the "false prophet" is an UNholy spirit, who will speak lies in the name of God.
I'm not the only one to discover that 600+60+6 in Hebrew are the letters T-R-S-V/W, this person from Japan also found it in a mocking article about the Monster Energy Drink symbols are NOT the beast. I had to click the icon to translate it to English (from the original language, Japanese) so I could sorta kinda read it, check out that graphic with the letters that I found also ... https://hontoka.ina-ka.com/666/index-666monsutaenaji-moso.html & here https://hontoka.ina-ka.com/666/ {Caution: this Japanese site was just flagged for malware, I did not have that when visiting the site directly but the blog seems to think it has, click at your own risk.}
Other websites of interest ...
https://markofthebeast666.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/deciphering666/
"Leaving aside looking for a name, but focusing on the significant meaning, the usual top-down order of the letters תרסו do not equate to a Hebrew word. However, arranging the letters like this סרתו they still add to the number six hundred sixty six, but in this order form a phrase that has a relevant meaning.
To understand the meaning it is necessary to look at the four letters as a compound word composed of 2 two letter words, סר and תו . The first word סר means “gone aside” and the second word תו means “mark”.
The word סר is used in Psalm 14:3 KJV to describe how people by having “gone aside” have become no good (bad and evil) and the word תו is used in Ezekiel 9:4 KJV meaning the “mark” on someone’s forehead.
Thus placed together the phrase סרתו can be said to mean the “gone aside mark” or if the definition of beast being a horrid person (ref. Merriam-Webster Dictionary), it can be inferred to mean a “beast’s mark”.
The biblical reference for the Hebrew word תו is:
Ezekiel 9:4 KJV And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof
ויאמר יהוה , אלו , עבר בתוך העיר , בתוך ירושלם ; והתוית תו על-מצחות האנשים , הנאנחים והנאנקים , על כל-התועבות
הנעשות בתוכה
The biblical reference for the Hebrew word סר is:
Psalms 14:3 KJV They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one
הכל סר יחדו נאלחו: אין עשה טוב , אין, גם אחד
סרתו appears to be an interesting play on words and numbers. Please let me know if you or anyone you may share this with has any feedback."
Allen Donow, adonow@yahoo.com
Finally, the last task of my search is to try to figure out what the Greek letters or word for Hebrew letters תרסו would be, to the best of my ability it seems to be either: Ταρσῷ or Ταρσοῦ and the Strong's Concordance for those are: G5019 - Tarsos (Tarsus in English). Here's the links to study those out, if you are so inclined ...
Ταρσῷ
https://translate.google.com/?tl=el#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=Ταρσῷ
http://biblehub.net/searchgreek.php?q=Ταρσῷ (two results)
https://biblehub.com/greek/5019.htm
Ταρσοῦ
https://translate.google.com/?tl=el#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=Ταρσοῦ
https://biblehub.net/search.php?q=Ταρσοῦ (no results)
-- > I found this link confirming it means Tarsos (Tarsus) ... https://www.doaks.org/resources/seals/byzantine-seals/BZS.1958.106.182
-- > And here, interesting how it's related to Greek &/or Russian Orthodoxy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_28_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
See bottom of page, References: 2.
There is one other possible Greek translation to consider, and fittingly, it means "beast" in English, stemming from the Hebrew (תריו) (TRYV/W) or 600+10+6 = 616, which some people believe the number of the beast is rather than 666. I did not chase this rabbit far, perhaps another time ...
θηρίου
https://translate.google.com/?tl=el#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=θηρίου
http://biblehub.net/searchgreek.php?q=θηρίου
https://biblehub.com/greek/the_riou_2342.htm
https://biblehub.com/greek/2342.htm
Tarsus is the city that Saul (aka: the apostle Paul) was from. There are some people that try to say Paul was the antichrist, wrong. Yet, could Paul be a type or shadow of things to come? Is it possible the antichrist will arise out of Tarsus, yet also be a Jew/Israelite? Perhaps ...
"I am verily a man [which am] a Jew, born in Tarsus, [a city] in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, [and] taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day." -Paul {Acts 22:3 KJV}
I'm sure there's much more research I could do ...but... I've gone down this rabbit hole far enough LOL However, I ask again: Is it possible a Greek or Russian with an Israelite, not a Jew (Judah) but rather of Danite (Dan) ancestry, named Tarasov (תרסו in Hebrew), or perhaps from a place anciently called Tarsus (Ταρσῷ or Ταρσοῦ in Greek), will become the future (short-term) "king of Israel" (antichrist) during the time of "Jacob's trouble"?
Personally speaking, I don't think the church will be here to find out so this page is for those that will be trying to answer that question yet future ;o}
My 2016 blog articles on the Hebrew holiday called "Tu B'Av" (15th of Av), which has some very fascinating finds relating to the tribe of Dan ...
07/08/16 ~ Tu B'Av - August 18, 2016 ...
http://thelambswife.blogspot.com/2016/07/070816-tu-bav-august-18-2016.html
07/09/16 ~ Tu B'Av (August 18, 2016) ...
http://thelambswife.blogspot.com/2016/07/070916-tu-bav-august-18-2016.html
07/30/16 ~ Tu B'Av and ancient Hebrew ...
https://thelambswife.blogspot.com/2016/07/073019-tu-bav-and-ancient-hebrew.html
Maranatha to the TRUE King, Jesus {Yeshua}!
{All scripture is KJV, unless otherwise noted. All links should open in a new page. NOTE: If some of the links above don't work, or if the Greek, Russian, and/or Hebrew letters don't show up correctly for you ... it may be you don't have the correct fonts to display them. If for any reason the website links are duds, go to archive.org and try to find them there. Firefox Reader Viewer addon-extension should work although I did not specifically format this page to be able read the text.}
