Sentence examples for sacred number from inspiring English sources

The sacred number for most tribes was four, often said to represent the cardinal directions.

It is a sacred number now and remains absent from the Cup series.

In the old days Δt was a sacred number, same for all people.

The sacred number of Hermes was four, and the fourth day of the month was his birthday.

Craig Biggio, the last to reach the sacred number in 2007, was thrown out trying to stretch No. 3,000 into a double.

Gifted in English (from having studied Anglophone literature), Mr. Alami explained that this sacred number threads through much of daily life.

All off in eternity doing their sacred numbers.

Muslims today often carry verses from the Qurʾān, the names of God, or associated sacred numbers within small satchels.

When the Hebrew prophet Zechariah (14 9) proclaimed "on that day the Lord will be one and his name One," he indicated that the Hebrews, like their neighbours, reckoned with sacred numbers and saw in the number one a symbol of the Creator.

By the time he died, there were thousands, most of them following the program and techniques he had laid out in the 1950s and '60s to find the few sacred numbers that would spell out the size, age and fate of the universe.

Every treasured, workable, numerical kabala (or cabala--sacred number and/or letter codes used to derive meaning/truth) throughout history, including the sacred ancient Hebrew Kabbalah, instead uses the following method: 8432415 is comprised of 8000000, 400000, 30000, 2000, 400, 10, and 5; and then 27 (through fadic addition adding up all the numbers), and 9 (the root number, adding 2+7 of 27).