I'm not going to interpret what it means for you, but yes, this is correct. I have written a paper on this elsewhere. Herein I included another thread's post that I wrote (to see the Hebrew, go to "view-->encoding" and find "hebrew":
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The author of the Apocalypse TELLS us how to figure out what he is talking about. Rev. 13.18, my translation:
Now this is wisdom. The one who has a mind, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is a number of a man, and the his number is six hundred sixty six.
The author tells his readers exactly how to do it. And we know how to do it because there is rabbinic material that tells us, as well as Maccabean coins which give the values of certain hebrew letters. For example, tov = 400 or aleph = 1; wav is 6 because it's the sixth letter; qoph is 100 because that's what it is (ask the rabbis). What happens when you use the aramaic way of spelling, is that you can get QSRNRWN (קסרנרון
which is the way an Ancient Jew would spell "Caesar Nero."
If that wasn't enough for you -- I'm sure it isn't -- we have confirmation. Notice that we call Nero Nero, not NERON. That's because in Aramaic his name had the nun (N=ן
but in Latin it did not (kind of like Miriam in Hebrew and Mary in Latin). Irenaeus mentions, and several manuscripts of Revelation contain, the number 616 instead of 666, which happens to be a difference of 50, the exact representation of nun in hebrew numerology, giving the Hebrew קסרנרו
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It does not matter that the Apocalypse was written in Greek; it was written TO people who read both Hebrew and Greek; using Hebrew
gematriya is a technique still in use today among rabbis, and was begun in the intertestamental period on Maccabean coins.
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