Glossary & numbers
All fixed terms and meaningful numbers across the four books, with links to where they are treated.
Numbers
- completeness in relationship — three patriarchs, three days, three nights in the tomb
- completeness in creation — six days of work, one of rest; the whole dial
- new beginning — circumcision on the eighth day, eight souls in the ark
- covenant measure — ten words, ten tithes
- governed fullness — twelve tribes, twelve apostles
- testing & refining — 40 days flood, 40 years wilderness, 40 days temptation
- release & Spirit — jubilee, Pentecost (50th day)
- appointed discipline & nations — 70 years exile, 70 weeks
- the grace limit — 120 years before the flood
- sealed fullness — 12 × 12
- the full catch — John 21
- foreign domination — Genesis 15, fulfilled twice
- exact sojourn — Egypt to the law
- temple axis — exodus to Solomon's temple
- the master contract — 70 × 7 years
- the number of man — threefold short of 7
- Iesous — the name in Greek numeral value
- the half — 3½ years in days
- 30 days more — Daniel 12:11
- 45 days more — “blessed is he who waits”
- the Times of the Gentiles — 7 × 360 years
- the whole dial — six days of a thousand
3
7
8
10
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70
120
144
153
400
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480
490
666
888
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- 11QMelchizedek
- — Qumran text (±100 BC) that reads Daniel’s 490 as ten jubilees, culminating in an end-time release by a heavenly Redeemer on the Great Day of Atonement. Strong as a witness to an ancient reading, weak (fragmentary, reconstructed) as a bearer of a precise number — no date on a hook (Appendix D §4).
- Appears in:Seal →
- 2034 convergence
- The year (AM 6000) on which several independent prophetic counts coincide.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →Master Clock →Covenant →
- 490-year master contract
- The seventy weeks of Daniel 9 as one continuous 490-year covenant, with an interrupted final week.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →Master Clock →Seal →
A
- Adar
- Twelfth month of the Hebrew religious calendar (late winter). In leap years, a thirteenth month — Adar II — is inserted by the rabbinic authorities to keep the lunar months aligned with the solar seasons. See Intercalary month, Aviv rule.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Adar II
- The leap month occasionally added by the Jewish ecclesiastical authorities to keep the lunar calendar synchronized with the solar agricultural year. The addition of Adar II in 31 AD pushed Passover into late April, allowing the crucifixion to fall on a Wednesday and the resurrection seventy-two hours later, in fulfillment of Matthew 12:40.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- AM (Anno Mundi)
- Year count from the creation of Adam (AM 0 ≈ 3966 BC); running from Tishri to Tishri.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- anchor date
- A historically fixed date that serves as the calibration point for the calculations.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Anno Mundi (AM)
- Latin for in the year of the world. The reckoning of years from the creation of Adam, used in the chronological framework of this book. Anno Mundi 6000 corresponds to the autumn of 2034 AD on the standard calendar.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- anti-goel
- The counterfeit redeemer: the mirror image who promises to redeem what he actually means to possess.
- Appears in:Covenant →Covenant →
- Aparchē (ἀπαρχή)
- Greek for firstfruits. The first sheaf of barley or the first loaves of wheat brought to the Lord at the festivals of Firstfruits and Pentecost as a legal pledge that the main harvest belonged to Him. The term carries the weight of a down payment. The Church is the aparchē of the wheat harvest; the 144,000 are a special part of the Bride, and within that a pledge toward Israel the nation.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- the Architect
- God as the designer of salvation history, who lays down time and structure in advance.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →Seal →
- Asham
- Guilt offering (Lev. 5–6); restitution sacrifice for trespass. One of the three atonement offerings (with olah and chatat) that typologically prefigure the cross. See Olah, Chatat, Zevach u-minchah.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- atnach
- — the Masoretic main cantillation accent; it falls after “seven sevens” in 9:25 and is used to support the “two anointed ones” reading. Late (±AD 800-1000) and in this book not decisive: the accents are medieval interpretation, not authority.
- Appears in:Seal →
- Autumn cluster
- The book’s term for the three autumn festivals of Leviticus 23 — Trumpets (Yom Teruah), Atonement (Yom Kippur), and Tabernacles (Sukkot) — which the master clock projects as the closing-window festivals of the dial. See Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Avenger of Blood
- The English translation of the Hebrew Goel ha-dam (גואל הדם) — the redeemer of the blood. Under the Mosaic law, the kinsman whose duty was to pursue and punish the killer of a relative (Numbers 35). The second of the three offices of the Goel, alongside redeemer and bridegroom.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- avon
- (עָוֹן) — iniquity, crookedness. The third sin-word of 24f; the warpedness that is “atoned for.”
- Appears in:Seal →
B
- banah
- (בנה) — to build (the stones, the walls). With shuv the verb-pair of 25d (“to restore and to build”).
- Appears in:Seal →
- berit
- (בְּרִית) — covenant. In 27a not “cut” (karat) but “forced” (higbir) — an imposed pact, not a covenant of grace. Key word of the bolt in 11:22 (nagid berit, Appendix I).
- Appears in:Seal →
- Bozrah
- The place of refuge and of the Redeemer's return at the close of the seventieth week.
- Appears in:Master Clock →Covenant →
- Bridal age
- The book’s term for the two-thousand-year period between the close of the four-hundred-and-ninety-year window appointed to Israel (autumn AD 34) and the opening of the seventieth week’s physical execution (autumn AD 2027). The corridor in which the Bride is gathered out of every nation. See Hosea bridge, Plērōma, Ruth Protocol.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
C
- calculated date
- A date that follows from the prophetic arithmetic measured from an anchor date.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Charagma (χάραγμα)
- Greek for engraving or brand. The mark imposed by the Antichrist’s regime on the right hand or forehead (Revelation 13:16-18). The word is the same one used for the brand a slave-owner burned into his property.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- charats / charuts
- (חרץ / חָרוּץ) — to cut sharply, to decide / cut-out moat. From the protecting moat (25i) to the “determined desolations” (26h) to the “firm decree” (27f). The cut that first protects later passes sentence.
- Appears in:Seal →
- chatak
- (חתך) — to cut out, to determine firmly. 24a: the seventy sevens are “cut out” of time. It opens the cutting-field (together with charats, karat, gazar) that weaves through the whole chapter.
- Appears in:Seal →
- Chatat
- Sin offering (Lev. 4); atonement sacrifice for unintentional violation. One of the three atonement offerings typologically fulfilled at the cross. See Olah, Asham, Zevach u-minchah.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Chathak
- Hebrew verb meaning to cut off, to determine, to measure out. The verb of Daniel 9:24 specifying that the seventy weeks have been carved out by the Architect for a precise purpose.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- chatzi
- (חֲצִי) — half, middle. 27c: “in the half of the week” — the hinge where the sacrifice is made to cease.
- Appears in:Seal →
- Cheirographon
- Greek for handwritten document or certificate of debt. The legal IOU representing the debt of humanity that was nailed to the cross (Colossians 2:14). Mentioned in passing; treated implicitly throughout chapters 1 and 5.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Cheshvan
- The eighth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, corresponding to October-November. The seventeenth of Cheshvan is the day Noah entered the ark, seven days before the flood (Genesis 7:11). Mentioned in chapter 2 as one candidate window for the gathering of the watching Bride.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- covenant with the many
- The covenant of Daniel 9:27 that confirms the final week and is broken at its midpoint.
- Appears in:Covenant →Seal →
D
- the Dajjal
- The Islamic 'deceiver'; identified within the great inversion against the biblical expectation.
- Appears in:Covenant →
- Day of the Lord
- Not a single day but a period of God's wrath beginning already at the sixth seal (Rev 6:17, ēlthen) and running to the return.
- Appears in:Master Clock →God's Algorithm →
- dispensational hinge
- The principled hinge (Rom 11:25-26) anchoring the boundary between the Bride and the wedding guests; no partial rapture.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
E
- Eikon (εἰκών)
- Greek for image or likeness. The image of the beast that the False Prophet animates with breath in Revelation 13:15.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Elohim
- Hebrew name for God in His role as Creator. Numerical value (gematria) 86. The total word count of Daniel 9:24–27 in Hebrew is 86 — one of the textual signatures of the prophecy.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Elul
- The sixth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, corresponding to August-September. The first of Elul opens the forty-day period of teshuvah (repentance) leading to the Day of Atonement. The lifting of the protective shield over Bozrah on day 1,290 falls in early Elul 2034. Treated in chapter 15.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Erusin
- First phase of the Galilean two-stage marriage tradition: the legally binding betrothal during which the bride is set apart but the groom is absent, building the marital chamber. The biblical type of the present age of the Church. See Nissuin.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
F
- fan and chain
- The structure (whole/peak, two cohorts, thlipsis/orgē, ek, the sixth seal) is a fan — redundant and robust: remove one support and it still stands (the frame, defended with a firm hand). The chronology (the date 2034) is a chain — only as strong as its weakest link, the Masoretic creation-epoch (the window, held with an open hand).
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Firstfruits
- See Aparchē. The English term used throughout this book for the harvest pledge.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- four-block structure
- The symmetric arrangement of 2520 + 480 + 480 + 2520 years — a chiasm folding around the Temple (year 3000).
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →Seal →
G
- Gabar
- Hebrew verb meaning to be strong, to prevail. The root behind gibbor (mighty warrior), geburah (might, dominance), and higbir (the verb of Daniel 9:27 — to enforce, to impose by force). See Higbir.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- gabar / higbir
- (גבר / הִגְבִּיר) — to be strong / to impose with force, to force. 27a: the covenant is not concluded but imposed — an agent-Janus (who imposes it: the Anointed One or the prince to come?), see Appendix E.
- Appears in:Seal →
- gematria
- — numerical value of letters. Overt: number and word both in the text, congruent in content (defensible). Secret: the number appears only after choices by the analyst (largely arbitrary). The distinction determines what counts (Appendix B).
- Appears in:Seal →
- Goel
- The kinsman-redeemer of the Torah; the relative who buys back the forfeited inheritance — a type of the Messiah.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →Covenant →Master Clock →
H
- Harpazō (ἁρπάζω)
- Greek for snatch away or catch up. The verb used in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 to describe the gathering of the watching Bride to meet the Lord in the air. The Latin Vulgate translates this with rapiemur, from which the English term rapture is derived.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Higbir
- The hifil causative of gabar: to make strong, to cause to prevail, to enforce by overwhelming force. The verb used in Daniel 9:27 of the Coming Prince’s act of imposing a covenant. Notoriously translated confirm in older English Bibles, which loses the strongman lading of the Hebrew. See Gabar, Nagid haba.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Horn & Wood
- Siegfried Horn and Lynn Wood, twentieth-century chronologists whose 1953 study The Chronology of Ezra 7 established the Tishri-to-Tishri Persian regnal-year reconstruction that anchors the seventy-weeks count to autumn 457 BC. See Anno Mundi, Master contract.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Hosea bridge
- The book’s term for the two-thousand-year corridor announced in Hosea 6:2 between the close of the four-hundred-and-ninety-year window in AD 34 and the opening of the physical seventieth week in AD 2027. See Bridal age, Day-year principle.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Hoshana Rabbah
- Hebrew for the great Hosanna. The seventh and final day of the Feast of Tabernacles, traditionally regarded as the closing day of the divine judgment. Day 1,335 of Daniel’s prophecy falls on Hoshana Rabbah / Shemini Atzeret in 2034. Treated in chapters 17 and Appendix A.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Hoshana Rabbah
- The Great Hosanna — the seventh and closing day of the festival of Tabernacles, falling on 21 Tishri. The day on which, by the projection of the master clock, the dial closes at AM 6000 and the Goel returns. See Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
I
- Internal chiasm
- The five-fold textual chiastic structure of Daniel 9:26–27 itself, with letter counts and word counts that lock the structure of the four verses from within. Developed in Appendix E. Distinct from the chiastic mirror of historical events. See Chiastic mirror.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Irenaeus of Lyons
- Second-century church father (~AD 130–200). His Adversus Haereses 5.28.3 is one of the earliest Christian witnesses to the six-thousand-year framework. See Day-year principle, Barnabas.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
J
- Jacob's trouble
- The post-abomination tribulation of Matt 24:21 (Jer 30:7; Dan 12:1) — the Judean remnant, the 1,260 days — distinct from the week-wide thlipsis of Rev 7:14.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Janus parallelism
- — a word that bears two meanings at once, looking backward and forward (Cyrus Gordon; Scott Noegel). See Appendix E.
- Appears in:Seal →
- jubilee
- The fiftieth year in which debt is released and inheritance returns — a rhythm within the master clock.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
K
- kala’
- (כלא) — to shut up, to restrain. The aleph-reading of 24d; alongside kalah a defensible ambiguity (sin ended or sin locked up).
- Appears in:Seal →
- kalah
- (כלה) — to finish, to bring to an end. 24d and 27f form the outer arch: from “to finish the transgression” to “the finishing-off upon the desolator.”
- Appears in:Seal →
- kanaf
- (כְּנַף) — wing, edge, hem, temple-pinnacle. The covenant-hem of protection over the bride (Ruth 3:9; Ezekiel 16:8), in 27e reversed into a “wing of abominations” — protection turned into desolation (Appendix E §3).
- Appears in:Seal →
- kaphar
- (כפר) — to atone (to wipe away or to satisfy with a ransom, not “to cover”). Goal 3 (24f); the act that belongs on the Great Day of Atonement (Appendix D §5).
- Appears in:Seal →
- Karat
- Hebrew verb meaning to cut. Used in covenant contexts for the cutting of a covenant by the formal slaughter of the covenant sacrifice. The verb of Daniel 9:26 announcing that Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself — i.e., the cross as covenant cutting.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- karat / yikareth
- (כרת) — to cut off; passive yikareth, “is cut off” (26b). Two fields in one word: the
- Appears in:Seal →
- Karath (כרת)
- Hebrew for cut off, severed, killed. The verb used in Daniel 9:26 to describe the cutting off of the Anointed One after the sixty-ninth week.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Kenosis
- Greek for self-emptying. From Philippians 2:7, where Yeshua emptied Himself to take the form of a servant. The theological term for the Goel’s voluntary divine self-limitation in the act of atonement.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Ketiv / Qere
- — Ketiv = what is written (the consonants); Qere = what is read (the reading tradition). This book reads the written consonantal body; at mashiach the qere gives 358, the ketiv 359 (Appendix A).
- Appears in:Seal →
L
- look-elsewhere effect
- — with enough counting-choices almost every number lies next to a meaningful word; “nearness” therefore proves nothing on its own. The correction that keeps the numbers-thesis honest (Appendix B).
- Appears in:Seal →
M
- the Mahdi
- The awaited Islamic end-time figure; read here as a counterfeit redeemer opposite the Goel.
- Appears in:Covenant →
- Maranatha
- An Aramaic greeting used among the earliest Christians, meaning Our Lord, come. Found in 1 Corinthians 16:22. The breath of the Bride, as the book describes it.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Mashiach
- (משיח). Anointed One; the Messiah. Numerical value (gematria) 358 — the raw consonantal letter count of Daniel 9:24–27.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Mashiach Nagid
- Messiah Prince; the title given the Anointed One in Daniel 9:25 at the close of the sixty-ninth week (autumn AD 27). The first of the two Nagids in the prophecy. See Nagid haba, Two Nagids.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- maskil / maskilim
- (מַשְׂכִּיל) — the prudent one(s), the discerning. Those who “bring many to understanding” (11:33) and “shall understand” (12:10); in this book linked to the 144,000 (Appendix C §5).
- Appears in:Seal →
- Maskilim (משכילים)
- Hebrew for the wise or those who instruct. The term used in Daniel 11:33-35 and 12:3 for the wise teachers who shine like the stars during the seventieth week. Treated in chapter 17.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- master clock
- The overarching biblical time mechanism that divides salvation history into fixed periods.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →Master Clock →
- Master Clock
- This book’s term for the six-thousand-year framework of human history, from the creation of Adam to the close of the sixth millennium in 2034. The clock runs in millennial days corresponding to the seven days of creation week.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Master Contract
- This book’s term for the seventy weeks of years (490 years) of Daniel 9, the legal framework within which the Redeemer buys back His Bride and reclaims His throne.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- matres lectionis
- — “mothers of reading”: consonants (w, y, h) that function as vowels. Stripping them yields the skeleton — the weakest counting-category (Appendix B).
- Appears in:Seal →
- Mazzaroth
- The constellations of the Hebrew zodiac (Job 38:32). The book invokes the Mazzaroth where prophetic events are paired with celestial signs. See Stricken Third.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- merism
- — two extremes that designate the whole (blood + bloodless = the whole sacrificial service, 27d).
- Appears in:Seal →
- meshomem
- (מְשֹׁמֵם) — desolator (active participle, 27e). Shares the cluster mem-shin with Mashiach — the mirrored counter-figure (Appendix E §4).
- Appears in:Seal →
- Metonic cycle
- The nineteen-year lunisolar cycle that aligns lunar months with solar years; the basis of the standard rabbinic calendar’s intercalary month placement. See Adar, Intercalary month.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Minchah
- Grain or tribute offering (Lev. 2); the gift offering accompanying the daily tamid. Originally meant tribute paid to a sovereign. Used in Daniel 9:21 of the daily evening offering, and in 9:27 (paired with zevach) for the ongoing temple cult that the Coming Prince will halt. See Zevach, Zevach u-minchah, Tamid.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- mispar hechrachi
- — the standard gematria (each letter its ordinary numerical value). The only counting method this book leans on for the “overt” signals.
- Appears in:Seal →
N
- Nagid
- Hebrew for prince, ruler, leader. Numerical value (gematria) 34, identical to Goel. The title appears twice in Daniel 9, identifying two distinct figures — the Messiah and the Coming Prince. See Mashiach Nagid, Nagid haba, Two Nagids.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- nagid ha-ba
- (נָגִיד הַבָּא) — a prince to come (26e). The figure whose people destroy the city and who acts in verse 27 — the end-prince, not the Anointed One (Appendix I §1-3).
- Appears in:Seal →
- Nagid haba
- The Prince who shall come; the second figure introduced in Daniel 9:26. Grammatically distinct from Mashiach Nagid: marked with the article and the participle ba (coming), placing his appearance in the future from the standpoint of the prophet. The actor of Daniel 9:27. See Two Nagids, Higbir.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- natak
- (נתך) — to pour out (idiomatically for poured-out wrath). 27g echoes 9:11: from curse-over-the-people to judgment-over-the-desolator.
- Appears in:Seal →
- Nisan
- First month of the Hebrew religious calendar (early spring). Pesach falls on 14 Nisan; the Crucifixion fell on 14 Nisan in AD 31.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Nissuin
- The wedding-feast phase of the Galilean two-stage marriage tradition, following the erusin. The biblical type of the closing chapter of the master clock, when the Bridegroom comes for His Bride. See Erusin, Harpazo.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
O
- Olah
- Whole burnt offering (Lev. 1); the offering ascending entirely to God in totality. The principal atonement offering, typologically fulfilled at the cross (Eph. 5:2). See Chatat, Asham, Zevach u-minchah.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- orgē (wrath)
- God's wrath, emptied by the Bridegroom in Gethsemane; never the Bride's portion (1 Thess 5:9). The woe/wrath seam lies at the sixth seal.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
P
- Pentecost
- The feast occurring fifty days after the Feast of Firstfruits, also called Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks). The day on which the Spirit was poured out in 31 AD and the Church was born as the wheat firstfruits (Acts 2). Treated in chapter 2.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Pesach
- Passover; the spring festival commemorating the Exodus, falling on 14 Nisan. The festival on which the cross fell in AD 31 and on which, by the chiastic mirror, the abomination of desolation is projected to fall in 2031.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- pesha
- (פֶּשַׁע) — rebellion, transgression. The first and heaviest sin-word (24d): deliberate rebellion.
- Appears in:Seal →
- Pleroma (πλήρωμα)
- Greek for fullness. The term used in Romans 11:25 for the fullness of the Gentiles — the predetermined number of believers from the nations whose ingathering closes the present age. Mentioned in chapter 2.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Pneuma (πνεῦμα)
- Greek for breath or spirit. The same word translates the Hebrew ruach. In Revelation 13:15, the False Prophet gives pneuma to the image of the beast — a deliberate inversion of Genesis 2:7, where God breathed neshamah into Adam. Mentioned in chapter 11.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Pre-Abomination
- The rapture model of this trilogy: the Bride is taken at the sixth seal (~2028-2029), before the abomination (Purim 2031) — pre-wrath in mechanism, pre-abomination in timing.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
Q
- qodesh qodashim
- (קֹדֶשׁ קָדָשִׁים) — most holy. Predominantly the holy place; minority reading: a holy Person (1 Chronicles 23:13). Goal 6 (24i); a strong Janus (Appendix E §3).
- Appears in:Seal →
R
- rabbim
- (רַבִּים) — the many, the multitude. 27a (la-rabbim); echoes Isaiah 53:11-12 (the Servant justifies “the many”) — here as a counter-image in a forced covenant.
- Appears in:Seal →
- Recapitulation
- The classical theological term for the typological mirroring of an original event in a counterfeit form. The Coming Prince of 2027–2034 enacts a recapitulation of the Goel’s blueprint of AD 27–34 in counterfeit register. See Chiastic mirror.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Ruth Protocol
- The book’s term for the Ruth-Boaz typology applied to the gentile incorporation into the household of Israel during the bridal age. Naomi = Israel; Ruth = the Bride from the nations; Boaz = the Goel. See Bridal age.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
S
- Sanhedrin
- The supreme Jewish council of seventy elders during the Second Temple period, convening in Jerusalem and exercising religious and judicial authority over the nation. Mentioned throughout.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Seder Olam Rabbah
- — the rabbinic chronology (2nd century AD) and basis of the Jewish year-count; it compresses the Persian period (~165 years — the best-documented part of the ~two-century difference with the genealogically derived count of God’s Algorithm). It explains why the Jewish count makes the 70 weeks just barely miss landing on Jesus (chapter 13).
- Appears in:Seal →
- seventieth week
- The final seven years of the 490-year contract; juridically fulfilled at Christ, physically resumed at the end.
- Appears in:Seal →Master Clock →Covenant →
- shabat / yashbit
- (שבת) — to cause to cease, to cause to rest (the sabbath-root). 27d: a Janus between sacrificial service “brought to rest” (fulfilled, the cross) and “made to cease” (suppressed, 70th week) — blueprint and execution (Appendix E §3).
- Appears in:Seal →
- shamem
- (שמם) — to desolate, to appall. The progression shomemot (26h) → meshomem (27e) → shomem (27g): the word-field that carries out the judgment.
- Appears in:Seal →
- Shavua / Shavuim
- (שבוע / שבועים). Week / weeks; literally seven / sevens. The unit of measurement in Daniel 9:24’s seventy weeks, signifying seventy units of seven years.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- Shavuim shivim (שבעים
- \*\* \*\*\*\*שבעים\*\*\*\*).\*\* Hebrew for seventy weeks (literally seventy sevens). The phrase used in Daniel 9:24 to designate the 490-year master contract.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Shemini Atzeret
- Hebrew for the eighth day of assembly. The festival immediately following the seven days of Tabernacles, sometimes celebrated together with Hoshana Rabbah. Treated in chapter 17.
- Appears in:Master Clock →
- Shemini Atzeret
- The Eighth Day Assembly; the closing festival appended to Sukkot, falling on 22 Tishri. Together with Hoshana Rabbah of 21 Tishri, the eighth-day signature of the new creation. See Hoshana Rabbah, Sukkot.
- Appears in:God's Algorithm →
- shiqquts / shiqqutsim
- (שִׁקּוּצִים) — abomination(s) (idolatrous abomination). 27e: “a wing of abominations”; in 11:31 and 12:11 “the abomination that desolates.”
- Appears in:Seal →
- shomem
- (שֹׁמֵם) — desolator (person) or desolated/forsaken one (state). 27g; a genuine Janus that enacts the sentence (Appendix E §3).
- Appears in:Seal →
- Shomem (שמם) / Meshomem (משמם)
- Hebrew root meaning to make desolate. The participle meshomem means the one who desolates (the active destroyer); the simpler form shomem means the desolated thing (the passive ruin). Daniel 9:27 plays on this distinction: the destroyer is reduced from meshomem to shomem. Treated in chapter 15 and Appendix A.
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- shuv
- (שוב) — to cause to return, to restore. With banah in 25d (“to restore and to build”).
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- the Sitnah
- The hinge point (487/486 BC) that opens the Times of the Gentiles — the end of the golden bridge.
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- Sitnah (שטנה)
- Hebrew for accusation or adversary’s letter. The legal complaint filed against the Jewish people in the first regnal year of Xerxes I (486 BC), recorded in Ezra 4:6. The word shares its root with Satan (the accuser). The acceptance of this letter began the 2,520-year Times of the Gentiles. Treated in Appendix A; the full historical case in the companion volume God’s Algorithm.
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- Squatter
- This book’s working term for Satan and the rebel powers occupying the earth as an illegal possessor. The squatter holds the property he has no legal right to and refuses to leave until the rightful Owner returns to physically evict him.
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- SSER-skeleton
- — the consonant-backbone of a word after reduction; used for the skeleton-count, and honestly marked as the weakest counting-category (Appendix B).
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- Stephanos (στέφανος)
- Greek for crown, specifically the laurel wreath awarded to a victor or athlete. Distinct from diadema, the royal crown of a sovereign. The redeemed are crowned with stephanos in the new Jerusalem. Mentioned in chapters 4 and 17.
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- Sukkot
- Hebrew for the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths, the seven-day autumn festival commemorating Israel’s wilderness sojourn (Leviticus 23:33-43). One of the three pilgrimage feasts. Treated in chapter 16.
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- Sukkot
- Feast of Tabernacles; the seven-day autumn festival commemorating Israel’s wilderness sojourn, beginning on 15 Tishri. The festival on which Hoshana Rabbah falls. See Hoshana Rabbah, Shemini Atzeret.
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- Tamid
- Hebrew for the continual — the daily morning and evening burnt offering of the temple cult. Halted by Antiochus IV in the second century BC and prophetically halted again by the Coming Prince in Daniel 8:11–13, 11:31, and 12:11. See Zevach u-minchah.
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- Tanna debe Eliyahu
- The school of Elijah; the rabbinic tradition to which the six-thousand-year saying preserved in Sanhedrin 97a is attributed. See Sanhedrin 97a.
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- Teshuvah
- Hebrew for return, repentance. The standard forty-day period of return practised in Hebrew tradition between Elul and Yom Kippur, imitating Moses’s second forty days on Sinai. See Yom Kippur.
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- Teshuvah (תשובה)
- Hebrew for return or repentance. The forty-day period from the first of Elul to the Day of Atonement, traditionally observed in orthodox Jewish practice as a season of preparation. The Bozrah remnant cries out in teshuvah during these forty days in 2034. Treated in chapter 15.
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- Tetelestai (τετέλεσται)
- Greek for it is finished. The final word of the Redeemer from the cross (John 19:30). The Greek perfect tense indicates a completed action with continuing effect — the work is done and remains done. Mentioned in chapter 5.
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- thlipsis (tribulation)
- Tribulation — the Bride's portion with the Bridegroom (the night, the birth-pang); to be distinguished from wrath (orgē).
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- Times of the Gentiles
- The period of gentile dominion over Jerusalem, opened at the Sitnah and measured as 2520 years.
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- Tishri
- The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar but the first month of the civil calendar, corresponding to September-October. Tishri 1 is the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah); Tishri 10 is the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur); Tishri 15-21 is the Feast of Tabernacles. The seventieth week opens on Tishri 1, 2027 in the chronology proposed in this book. Treated throughout, with technical deta
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- Tsela (צלע)
- Hebrew for side. Genesis 2:21-22 records that Eve was built from Adam’s tsela. The traditional translation rib understates the term. Treated in chapter 16.
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- two cohorts
- Two companies in opposite relation to the one tribulation: the Bride taken out (ek) of the whole before the peak (Rev 7 — upward, the throne); the remnant kept through the peak (Matt 24 — downward, the wilderness; Rev 12:6; Jacob's trouble). Two cohorts, not a two-layer Bride.
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- Two Nagids
- The grammatical and theological distinction between the two figures called Nagid in Daniel 9:25–27. The first is Mashiach Nagid (the Messiah, presented at the close of the sixty-ninth week in AD 27); the second is \*Nagid \*\*haba\* (the Coming Prince, the actor of the future seventieth week). The failure to keep them apart is the source of nearly every interpretive confusion of the chapter. Devel
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- whole and peak
- There is ONE great tribulation: the whole (the entire seventieth week, Rev 7:14) with its peak (the second half after the abomination — Satan's hour, Matt 24:21; Rev 3:10). Whole and peak rightly bear one name, as a war and its fiercest battle — not two separate tribulations.
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- Yashbit
- Hifil of shabat: to cause to cease, to bring to a stop. The verb of Daniel 9:27 specifying that the Coming Prince \*physically halts
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- Yeshua
- Hebrew form of the name Jesus. The book uses Yeshua throughout to retain the Hebraic register of the figure who fulfils the prophecies of the Hebrew Bible.
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- Yeshua (ישוע)
- The Hebrew name of Jesus, meaning He saves or YHWH is salvation. The book uses Yeshua and Jesus interchangeably, with Yeshua preferred where the Hebrew background carries argumentative weight.
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- Yom Kippur
- Hebrew for the Day of Atonement, the most solemn day of the Jewish year, falling on Tishri 10. Treated in chapter 15. 2
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- Yom Kippur
- Day of Atonement; 10 Tishri. The annual day on which the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies with the blood of the goat for the sins of the nation. The closing of the autumn cluster’s first week.
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- Yom Teruah
- Day of Trumpets; 1 Tishri. The autumn New Year festival on which the silver shofars sounded at the temple. The festival on which, by the projection of the master clock, the seventieth week opens its physical course in autumn 2027.
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- zevach
- u-\*\*minchah\* in the middle of his week. The verb describes physical cessation by an active agent, not typological obsolescence. See Zevach u-minchah.
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- Zevach u-minchah
- Hendiadys (two-word formula naming a unified concept) for the ongoing temple cult — the daily and festal round of fellowship and tribute offerings. Used in Daniel 9:27 of what the Coming Prince physically halts in the middle of his week. The phrase appears in 1 Sam. 2:29, Ps. 40:6, Jer. 17:26, Am. 5:25, and Dan. 9:27 — across all five attestations meaning the functioning sacrificial system as a to
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