Definition

666 as a numeral

Etymology

the 22nd, 14th and an obsolete letter (G4742 (στίγμα) as a cross) of the Greek alphabet (intermediate between the 5th and 6th), used as numbers; denoting respectively 600, 60 and 6;

Where the KJV renders it

• six hundred threescore and six

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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