Locusts ארבה
Locusts — in Hebrew ארבה — locusts, the eighth plague. In the Torah codes, Locusts is found 77,154 times at skips 2–5,000, the shortest at skip 2 (Genesis 17:18) — about what chance alone gives (about 77,416).
- Found in the Torah
- 77,154
- Chance alone
- 77,416
- P (≥ found)
- 0.83
- Shortest skip
- 2
Skips 2–5,000, both directions, final letters folded, the written text — the laboratory's own defaults.
In the Torah
77,154 sequences of ארבה at skips 2–5,000 in the Torah, close to the 77,416 that chance alone would produce.
Its smallest skip in the Torah is 2 — the first at Genesis 17:18, reading forward.
Counting every skip from 2 to 101,616, the Torah holds 789,639 sequences of ארבה, against about 806,667 from chance alone.
- Genesis 20,196
- Exodus 14,930
- Leviticus 12,363
- Numbers 15,016
- Deuteronomy 14,649
The shortest skips
וַיֹּאמֶר אַבְרָהָם אֶל־הָֽאֱלֹהִים לוּ יִשְׁמָעֵאל יִחְיֶה לְפָנֶֽיךָ
And Abraham said unto God: ‘Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee! ’
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 19,967Open in the laboratory →
וַיֹּאמֶר אַבְרָהָם אֶל־שָׂרָה אִשְׁתּוֹ אֲחֹתִי הִוא וַיִּשְׁלַח אֲבִימֶלֶךְ מֶלֶךְ גְּרָר וַיִּקַּח אֶת־שָׂרָֽה
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife: ‘She is my sister.’ And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 24,375Open in the laboratory →
וַיֹּאמֶר אַבְרָהָם כִּי אָמַרְתִּי רַק אֵין־יִרְאַת אֱלֹהִים בַּמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה וַהֲרָגוּנִי עַל־דְּבַר אִשְׁתִּֽי
And Abraham said: ‘Because I thought: Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 24,945Open in the laboratory →
וַיֹּאמֶר אַבְרָהָם אָנֹכִי אִשָּׁבֵֽעַ
And Abraham said: ‘I will swear.’
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 26,513Open in the laboratory →
וַיֹּאמֶר אַבְרָהָם אֶל־נְעָרָיו שְׁבוּ־לָכֶם פֹּה עִֽם־הַחֲמוֹר וַאֲנִי וְהַנַּעַר נֵלְכָה עַד־כֹּה וְנִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶה וְנָשׁוּבָה אֲלֵיכֶֽם
And Abraham said unto his young men: ‘Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder; and we will worship, and come back to you.’
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 27,239Open in the laboratory →
Across the Tanakh
The whole Tanakh holds 252,857 sequences of ארבה at skips 2–5,000, 0.8% above what chance alone gives (about 250,847); at counts this large even that difference has a probability of 3.1 × 10⁻⁵ by chance alone.
- Genesis 20,196
- Exodus 14,930
- Leviticus 12,363
- Numbers 15,016
- Deuteronomy 15,704
- Joshua 9,775
- Judges 8,253
- Samuel 18,881
- Kings 25,478
- Isaiah 11,277
- Jeremiah 21,560
- Ezekiel 16,100
- The Twelve 12,549
- Psalms 9,143
- Proverbs 3,163
- Job 3,699
- Song of Songs 496
- Ruth 1,009
- Lamentations 771
- Ecclesiastes 1,960
- Esther 2,031
- Daniel 4,156
- Ezra–Nehemiah 6,558
- Chronicles 17,789
Outside the Torah
וַתֹּאמֶר דְּבֹרָה אֶל־בָּרָק קוּם כִּי זֶה הַיּוֹם אֲשֶׁר נָתַן יְהוָה אֶת־סִֽיסְרָא בְּיָדֶךָ הֲלֹא יְהוָה יָצָא לְפָנֶיךָ וַיֵּרֶד בָּרָק מֵהַר תָּבוֹר וַעֲשֶׂרֶת אֲלָפִים אִישׁ אַחֲרָֽיו
And Deborah said unto Barak: ‘Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thy hand; is not the LORD gone out before thee?’ So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 350,885Open in the laboratory →
וַיְהִי מִיָּמִים בִּימֵי קְצִיר־חִטִּים וַיִּפְקֹד שִׁמְשׁוֹן אֶת־אִשְׁתּוֹ בִּגְדִי עִזִּים וַיֹּאמֶר אָבֹאָה אֶל־אִשְׁתִּי הֶחָדְרָה וְלֹֽא־נְתָנוֹ אָבִיהָ לָבֽוֹא
But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said: ‘I will go in to my wife into the chamber.’ But her father would not suffer him to go in.
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 370,665Open in the laboratory →
וַיֹּאמֶר אָבִיהָ אָמֹר אָמַרְתִּי כִּי־שָׂנֹא שְׂנֵאתָהּ וָאֶתְּנֶנָּה לְמֵרֵעֶךָ הֲלֹא אֲחֹתָהּ הַקְּטַנָּה טוֹבָה מִמֶּנָּה תְּהִי־נָא לְךָ תַּחְתֶּֽיהָ
And her father said: ‘I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion; is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.’
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column. letter 370,700Open in the laboratory →
The spelling
ארבה — the Tanakh's own spelling: locusts, the eighth plague. Searched as ארבה, 4 letters, with a standard gematria value of 208.
As a plain word it stands 14 times in the Tanakh, first at Genesis 3:16. Every word of the Tanakh in the Word Index →
Questions
Does Locusts appear in the Torah codes?
77,154 sequences of ארבה at skips 2–5,000 in the Torah, close to the 77,416 that chance alone would produce.
What is the shortest skip for Locusts in the Torah?
Skip 2, reading forward from Genesis 17:18 — the shortest of 77,154 sequences at skips 2–5,000, where chance alone would give about 77,416.
How is Locusts spelled in Hebrew?
Locusts is spelled ארבה — 4 letters searched, with a standard gematria value of 208.
Is Locusts in the Bible code across the whole Tanakh?
The whole Tanakh holds 252,857 sequences of ארבה at skips 2–5,000, 0.8% above what chance alone gives (about 250,847); at counts this large even that difference has a probability of 3.1 × 10⁻⁵ by chance alone.
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