Marco Polo מרקו פולו

Marco Polo (מרקו פולו): Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254–1324). In the Torah codes, מרקו (from Marco Polo) is found 237,719 times across every skip (2–101,616), the shortest at skip 2 (Numbers 16:16) — 1.7% above the 233,818 chance alone would give (probability of 237,719 or more by chance alone: 4.3 × 10⁻¹⁶).

Found in the Torah (מרקו) · every skip: 237,719
Chance alone · every skip: 233,818
P (≥ found) · every skip: 4.3 × 10⁻¹⁶
Shortest skip: 2
Longest skip found: 101,362

Every skip the Torah allows for a spelling of 4 letters (2–101,616), both directions, final letters folded, the written text.
At the laboratory's default range, skips 2–5,000: 21,882 found · chance alone about 22,440 (probability of 21,882 or more by chance alone: 1.00).

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In the Torah

A name of more than one word is searched one word at a time, as the laboratory does: the counts on this page are for מרקו, and פולו has its own figure under the other spellings, each beside its chance figure.

The Torah holds 237,719 sequences of מרקו across every skip (2–101,616), 1.7% above what chance alone gives (about 233,818); at counts this large even that difference has a probability of 4.3 × 10⁻¹⁶ by chance alone.

Its smallest skip in the Torah is 2 — at Numbers 16:16, reading forward.

The longest skip at which מרקו was found in the Torah is 101,362 — at Genesis 1:14, reading forward; a spelling of 4 letters fits the Torah at skips up to 101,616.

By book (where the first letter stands) · every skip

Genesis 64,647
Exodus 54,162
Leviticus 29,395
Numbers 49,860
Deuteronomy 39,655

Examples across the range

5 of the 237,719 sequences, chosen across the range of skips — the shortest, mid-range skips and the longest found — each with its verse and its matrix.

Under each example, every letter of the sequence is listed with the verse it stands in. A letter falls in its verse by position alone — one letter every so many letters of the text — so the verses are where the letters stand, not part of the sequence's meaning.

the shortest skip, forwardNumbers 16:16במדבר טז:טזskip 2, forward
Letter by letter
1. מ רNumbers 16:16
  וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה אֶל־קֹרַח אַתָּה וְכָל־עֲדָתְךָ הֱיוּ לִפְנֵי יְהוָה אַתָּה וָהֵם וְאַהֲרֹן מָחָֽר
  And Moses said unto Korah: ‘Be thou and all thy congregation before the LORD, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow;
2. ק וNumbers 16:17
  וּקְחוּ אִישׁ מַחְתָּתוֹ וּנְתַתֶּם עֲלֵיהֶם קְטֹרֶת …
  and take ye every man his fire-pan, and put incense upon them, and bring ye before the LORD every man his fire-pan, two hundred and fifty fire-pans; thou also, and Aaron, each his fire-pan.’
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.
letter 216,170 of the TorahOpen at skip 2 in the laboratory →
the shortest skip, backwardGenesis 23:4בראשית כג:דskip 2, backward
Letter by letter
1. מ ר ק וGenesis 23:4
  גֵּר־וְתוֹשָׁב אָנֹכִי עִמָּכֶם תְּנוּ לִי אֲחֻזַּת־קֶבֶר עִמָּכֶם וְאֶקְבְּרָה מֵתִי מִלְּפָנָֽי
  ’I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.’
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads up one column.
letter 28,510 of the TorahOpen at skip 2 in the laboratory →
a mid-range skipExodus 30:37שמות ל:לזskip 100, backward
1. מExodus 30:37
  וְהַקְּטֹרֶת אֲשֶׁר תַּעֲשֶׂה בְּמַתְכֻּנְתָּהּ לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ לָכֶם קֹדֶשׁ תִּהְיֶה לְךָ לַיהוָֽה
  And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves; it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.
Letter by letter: the other 3 letters
1. רExodus 30:35
  וְעָשִׂיתָ אֹתָהּ קְטֹרֶת רֹקַח מַעֲשֵׂה רוֹקֵחַ מְמֻלָּח טָהוֹר קֹֽדֶשׁ
  And thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.
2. קExodus 30:33
  אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִרְקַח כָּמֹהוּ וַאֲשֶׁר יִתֵּן מִמֶּנּוּ עַל־זָר וְנִכְרַת מֵעַמָּֽיו
  Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.’
3. וExodus 30:31
  וְאֶל־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל תְּדַבֵּר לֵאמֹר שֶׁמֶן מִשְׁחַת־קֹדֶשׁ יִהְיֶה זֶה לִי לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶֽם
  And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: This shall be a holy anointing oil unto Me throughout your generations.
skip 100, width 100 — one row is 100 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column.
letter 124,769 of the TorahOpen at skip 100 in the laboratory →
a mid-range skipLeviticus 3:6ויקרא ג:וskip 1,000, backward
1. םLeviticus 3:6
  וְאִם־מִן־הַצֹּאן קָרְבָּנוֹ לְזֶבַח שְׁלָמִים לַיהוָה זָכָר אוֹ נְקֵבָה תָּמִים יַקְרִיבֶֽנּוּ
  And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD be of the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Letter by letter: the other 3 letters
1. רLeviticus 2:2
  … מִסָּלְתָּהּ וּמִשַּׁמְנָהּ עַל כָּל־לְבֹנָתָהּ וְהִקְטִיר הַכֹּהֵן אֶת־אַזְכָּרָתָהּ הַמִּזְבֵּחָה אִשֵּׁה …
  And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests; and he shall take thereout his handful of the fine flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, together with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall make the memorial-part thereof smoke upon the altar, an offering made by fire…
2. קLeviticus 1:2
  … אֲלֵהֶם אָדָם כִּֽי־יַקְרִיב מִכֶּם קָרְבָּן לַֽיהוָה מִן־הַבְּהֵמָה מִן־הַבָּקָר …
  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When any man of you bringeth an offering unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd or of the flock.
3. וExodus 40:18
  וַיָּקֶם מֹשֶׁה אֶת־הַמִּשְׁכָּן וַיִּתֵּן אֶת־אֲדָנָיו וַיָּשֶׂם אֶת־קְרָשָׁיו …
  And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up its pillars.
skip 1,000, width 1,000 — one row is 1,000 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column.
letter 143,671 of the TorahOpen at skip 1,000 in the laboratory →
the longest skip foundGenesis 1:14בראשית א:ידskip 101,362, forward
1. םGenesis 1:14
  … הַלָּיְלָה וְהָיוּ לְאֹתֹת וּלְמוֹעֲדִים וּלְיָמִים וְשָׁנִֽים
  And God said: ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
Letter by letter: the other 3 letters
1. רExodus 16:15
  וַיִּרְאוּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל וַיֹּאמְרוּ אִישׁ אֶל־אָחִיו מָן …
  And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another: ‘What is it?’—for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them: ‘It is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
2. קNumbers 8:19
  … נֶגֶף בְּגֶשֶׁת בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶל־הַקֹּֽדֶשׁ
  And I have given the Levites— they are given to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague among the children of Israel…
3. וDeuteronomy 34:11
  לְכָל־הָאֹתוֹת וְהַמּוֹפְתִים אֲשֶׁר שְׁלָחוֹ יְהוָה לַעֲשׂוֹת בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם לְפַרְעֹה וּלְכָל־עֲבָדָיו וּלְכָל־אַרְצֽוֹ
  in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
skip 101,362, width 101,362 — one row is 101,362 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column.
letter 680 of the TorahOpen at skip 101,362 in the laboratory →

Across the Tanakh

Across every skip (2–399,013), מרקו appears 3,264,902 times in the whole Tanakh; chance alone would give about 3,304,613, so the count is in line with chance.

At the laboratory's default range, skips 2–5,000: 81,305 found · chance alone about 82,285 (probability of 81,305 or more by chance alone: 1.00).

By book (where the first letter stands) · every skip

Genesis 212,799
Exodus 185,835
Leviticus 113,196
Numbers 189,548
Deuteronomy 145,619
Joshua 110,930
Judges 108,062
Samuel 245,811
Kings 268,153
Isaiah 179,722
Jeremiah 239,207
Ezekiel 209,882
The Twelve 159,124
Psalms 207,491
Proverbs 70,853
Job 82,224
Song of Songs 14,353
Ruth 12,301
Lamentations 14,601
Ecclesiastes 32,279
Esther 36,505
Daniel 56,252
Ezra–Nehemiah 110,631
Chronicles 259,524

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Outside the Torah

shortest skip outside the Torah1 Kings 14:31מלכים א יד:לאskip 2, backward
Letter by letter
1. ם ר ק ו1 Kings 14:31
  וַיִּשְׁכַּב רְחַבְעָם עִם־אֲבֹתָיו וַיִּקָּבֵר עִם־אֲבֹתָיו בְּעִיר דָּוִד וְשֵׁם אִמּוֹ …
  And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.
skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads up one column.
letter 510,102 of the TanakhOpen at skip 2 in the laboratory →
a mid-range skipProverbs 8:32משלי ח:לבskip 100, forward
1. מProverbs 8:32
  וְעַתָּה בָנִים שִׁמְעוּ־לִי וְאַשְׁרֵי דְּרָכַי יִשְׁמֹֽרוּ
  Now therefore, ye children, hearken unto me; For happy are they that keep my ways.
Letter by letter: the other 3 letters
1. רProverbs 8:35
  כִּי מֹצְאִי מצאי חַיִּים וַיָּפֶק רָצוֹן מֵיְהוָֽה
  For whoso findeth me findeth life, And obtaineth favour of the LORD.
2. קProverbs 9:3
  שָֽׁלְחָה נַעֲרֹתֶיהָ תִקְרָא עַל־גַּפֵּי מְרֹמֵי קָֽרֶת
  She hath sent forth her maidens, she calleth, upon the highest places of the city:
3. וProverbs 9:7
  יֹסֵר לֵץ לֹקֵחַֽ לוֹ קָלוֹן וּמוֹכִיחַ לְרָשָׁע מוּמֽוֹ
  He that correcteth a scorner getteth to himself shame, and he that reproveth a wicked man, it becometh unto him a blot.
skip 100, width 100 — one row is 100 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column.
letter 944,116 of the TanakhOpen at skip 100 in the laboratory →
longest skip outside the Torah2 Chronicles 36:14דברי הימים ב לו:ידskip 398,735, backward
1. ם2 Chronicles 36:14
  גַּם כָּל־שָׂרֵי הַכֹּהֲנִים וְהָעָם הִרְבּוּ לִמְעָול־מַעַל כְּכֹל …
  Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, transgressed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the LORD which He had hallowed in Jerusalem.
Letter by letter: the other 3 letters
1. רEzekiel 46:12
  … וְעָשָׂה אֶת־עֹֽלָתוֹ וְאֶת־שְׁלָמָיו כַּאֲשֶׁר יַעֲשֶׂה בְּיוֹם הַשַּׁבָּת וְיָצָא וְסָגַר …
  And when the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt-offering or peace-offerings as a freewill-offering unto the LORD, one shall open for him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, as he doth on the sabbath day…
2. ק1 Samuel 11:7
  … שָׁאוּל וְאַחַר שְׁמוּאֵל כֹּה יֵעָשֶׂה לִבְקָרוֹ וַיִּפֹּל פַּֽחַד־יְהוָה עַל־הָעָם …
  And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying: ‘Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen.’ And the dread of the LORD fell on the people…
3. וGenesis 1:4
  וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הָאוֹר כִּי־טוֹב וַיַּבְדֵּל אֱלֹהִים בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ
  And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
skip 398,735, width 398,735 — one row is 398,735 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column.
letter 1,196,309 of the TanakhOpen at skip 398,735 in the laboratory →

The spelling

מרקו פולו — the name in Hebrew letters: Venetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia (1254–1324). Searched as מרקו, 4 letters, with a standard gematria value of 346.

As a plain word it stands 1 time in the Tanakh, first at Jeremiah 46:4. Every word of the Tanakh in the Word Index →

Other spellings

פולו — the name in Hebrew letters Torah · every skip: 339,457 (chance 346,558)

Questions

Does Marco Polo appear in the Torah codes?

What is the shortest skip for Marco Polo in the Torah?

Skip 2, reading forward from Numbers 16:16 — the shortest of 237,719 sequences across every skip (2–101,616), where chance alone would give about 233,818.

How is Marco Polo spelled in Hebrew?

Marco Polo is spelled מרקו פולו — 4 letters searched, with a standard gematria value of 346; one other spelling is counted on this page.

Is Marco Polo in the Bible code across the whole Tanakh?