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The number 283 has been popping out at me a lot today, in the form of total number of pages in books that I am cataloging (it's one of the factors I have to check to determine if a book matches the OCLC record we are proposing to download). So my first thought as this is not a "master number" or anything like that was gematria.

Here's a list of some Hebrew equivalents:

Ark of Jehovah.
to bind, to be hard, strong; cypress, gopher-tree.
to seize, grasp.
treasured gold.
memorial; record, account.
a seed.
pr. n. "Crusher", Nergal, a god of the Cuthites thought to be representative of the planet Mars.
silver of dross (unrefined silver).
pr. n. "Helper".
pr. n. "Calves' Fount", (well in Moab on east shore of the Dead Sea).

I'm intrigued that it is both "treasured gold" and "unrefined silver". Hm.

And some in English, although I am not certain what numerological method they are using to calculate the value of these words:

Agorae, Admiral, adore, Afterlife, Aftermath, Amanuensis, Assimilates, Appendant, Appending, Appends, Argot, Barking, Barks, Busier, Buries, Bureaus, Births, Bearish, Bellbird, Belongings, Bookmaking, Braking, Bramble, Bruise, Gaberdine, Gastraea, Glossing, Gnomon, Gourd, Grafting, Grafts, Groat, Darken, Diffuseness, Debaser, Dermal, Drilled, hearts, Hero, Hoer, Utopians, Unassuming, Unthread, Urbanite, Urease, Uredinia, Ingather, Earths, Eterne, Ellipses, Embarked, Embitter, Endeared, Entree, Epiglottis, Taunter, Tanbark, Tarbush, Tinter, Teener, Temptation, Topgallant, Tragedian, Trainee, Trueing, Trues, Trod, Faders, Ferine, fresh, Frog, Lanuginous, Limitedness, Majesties, Markkaa, Medlar, Mesothelium, Sabered, Sapodilla, Saponated, Sharif, Summation, Sigher, Siree, Stanhope, Steepening, Snapped, Solstitial, Oared, Omentums, Oread, Pumpkin, Rabato, Ranked, Rubies, Rushed, Retinae, Retene, refine, Renigged, Reseau

Not so interesting, heheh. Yesterday I was randomly reading a bunch of stuff on Judaism so I am slightly inclined to the former list fitting into the pattern better, but then I am also a bit averse to trying to apply to myself ideas from a mystical tradition from a culture and language I don't have any part of.

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