Number 8

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Number Eight

  *8 represents Resurrection and Regeneration is the superabundant number. Above the perfect completion of 7. 

• Main Meanings
  • Put of the old man
  • Sanctify
  • Manifest
  • Reveal
  • New begining
• Other Meanings
  • Death
  • To die
  • Circumcision of the flesh
• Bible References
  • Genesis 17:12
  • 2 Chronicles 29:17
  • 1 Peter 3:20,21
  • 2 Peter 1:14
• Authors Quoted
  • Tony Silveira
  • Russ Moyer
  • E.W. Bullinger

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Notes: RESURRECTION is the great truth which is signified. Christ rose from the dead on "the first day of the week," that was of necessity the eighth day. And it is remarkable that the Bible contains the record of eight individual Resurrections. (other than the Lord and the saints):

   Resurrections in the Bible
   3 in the Old Testament
   3 in the Gospels
   2 in Acts 9 and 20

In Hebrew the number eight is hnm# (Sh'moneh), from the root Nm# (Shah'meyn), "to make fat," "cover with fat," "to super-abound." As a participle it means "one who abounds in strength," etc. As a noun it is "superabundant fertility," "oil," etc. So that as a numeral it is the superabundant number. As seven was so called because the seventh day was the day of completion and rest, so eight, as the eighth day, was over and above this perfect completion, and was indeed the first of a new series, as well as being the eighth.

JEHOVAH'S COVENANTS WITH ABRAHAM were eight in number; seven before Isaac was offered up, and the eighth when he had been received "in a figure" from the dead.

  1. Gen 12:1-3, sovereignty.
  2. Gen 12:7, the seed.
  3. Gen 13:14-17, Divine assurance, rising and walking on resurrection ground.
  4. Gen 15:13-21, the limits of the land; the 400 years; the 4th generation.
  5. Gen 17:1-22, invincible grace.
  6. Gen 18:9-15, human failure and imperfection.
  7. Gen 21:12, Spiritual blessing headed up in the seed.
  8. Gen 22:15-18, resurrection blessing. 

The first three are marked off from the others by the words "after these things," 15:1. The next four are marked off from the eighth by similar separating words, repeated in 22:1.

It will be noted that each covenant blessing is stamped with the character of its numerical significance.

THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES was the only feast which was kept eight days. The eighth is distinguished from the seventh. See Leviticus 23:39, and compare verses 34-36; Numbers 29:39, and Nehemiah 8:18.

THE STEPS IN EZEKIEL'S TEMPLE

Seven led into the outer court (40:22,26), and eight led from the outer to the inner (40:31,34,37).

How many led into the Temple the Hebrew Text does not say. The Septuagint says there were ten. See verse 49, RV text and margin.

The seven led from labour to rest, the eight from rest to worship.

Circumcision was to be performed on the eighth day (Gen 17:12), because it was the foreshadowing of the true circumcision of the heart, that which was to be "made without hands," even "the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ" (Col 2:11). This is connected with the new creation.

The first-born was to be given to Jehovah on the eighth day (Exo 22:29,30)

THE MIRACLES OF ELIJAH were eight in number, marking the Divine character of his mission:

  1. The shutting up of heaven, 1 Kings 17:1; James 5:17; Luke 4:25.
  2. Multiplying the widow's meal, 2 Kings 17:14-16.
  3. Raising the widow's son, verses 17-23.
  4. Causing fire to come down from heaven, 1 Kings 18:37, 38.
  5. Causing rain to come down from heaven, verses 41-45.
  6. Causing fire to come down from heaven, 2 Kings 1:10.
  7. The same, verse 12.
  8. Dividing the Jordan, 2 Kings 2:8. 

THE MIRACLES OF ELISHA were double in number, viz. sixteen, for his request was, "Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me," 2 Kings 2:9:

  1. Dividing the Jordan, 2 Kings 2:14.
  2. Healing the waters, verse 21.
  3. Cursing the young men,* verse 24.
  4. Procuring water for the three kings, 2 Kings 3:16-20.
  5. Multiplying the widow's oil, 2 Kings 4:1-7.
  6. Raising the widow's son, 4:37.
  7. Healing the deadly pottage, verse 38.
  8. Feeding the hundred men, verses 42-44.
  9. The healing of Naaman, 2 Kings 5:1-19.
 10. The smiting of Gehazi, verses 20-27.
 11. Causing the iron to swim, 2 Kings 6:1-7.
 12. Opening the eyes of his servant, verse 17.
 13. Smiting the Syrian army with blindness, verse 18.
 14. Restoring their sight, verse 20.
 15. Arresting the king's messenger, verses 30-33.
 16. A dead man raised by touching his bones, 2 Kings 13:20, 21. 

EIGHT IS THE DOMINICAL NUMBER, for everywhere it has to do with the LORD. It is the number of His name, IHSOUS, Jesus I = 10 H = 8 S = 200 O = 70 U = 400 S = 200 Total = 888