There's been a number of posts on the gematria of the Name of "Jesus" and thought I'd throw up some more detail on it. The Name "Jesus" has several gematrias in Greek depending on how it is used in a sentence. Because of the problems John usually has in posting images or fonts, I'll just use English letters and present a guide at the end.

The Hebrew "Y'shu" is transliterated into Greek as "Jesou", which has a gematria of 688 The Hebrew "Y'shua" is transliterated into Greek as "Jesoua", which has a gematria of 689

There are 5 declensions of this Name.

1. Nominative - Jesous = 888, used in Matt 1:16 and elsewhere

2. Genitive - Jesou = 688, used in Matt 1:18 and elsewhere

3. Accusative - Jesoun = 738, used in Matt 1:21,25 and elsewhere

4. Dative - Jesoo = 1018, not sure if this is used in the Bible

5. Vocative - Jese = 233, not sure if this is used in the Bible either

The Nominative form is used when the Name "Jesus" appears as the subject of a sentence. The Genitive form is used for possession, origin or separation. The Dative form is used when referring to Jesus indirectly, or for locative value. The Accusative form is used when the Name "Jesus" appears as a direct object in a sentence.

The Vocative form is used when speak directly to "Jesus" Thus one would address Him as "Jese" when talking directly to Him, but call Him "Jesous", "Jesou", "Jesoun" or "Jesoo" when talking about Him to someone else.

So what does all this mean? Well, here's my take. I think both Hebrew and Greek were Divinely ordained languages used to describe different paradigms to man. Hebrew is the language God used to create the universe (See http://members.home.net/joe.viel/learn/alefbeit/CreativeForces.htm for a more detailed explanation) and describes thoughts as God sees the World. Maybe Greek is a language God had evolve into a form so that it would describe thoughts as man sees it. And man sees it different ways in different situations, because our view on the world is limited to the kind of portal we have on the world. So maybe the varying gematrias depending on how a word is used grammatically provide various shades of meaning to how man perceives different uses or appearances of something in life. We have a different view on things depending on context and I think this may be the key to the different cases in the Greek language.

Now there may be some names that don't change with case (grammatical context). I say that because I can only remember seeing "David" and "Joseph" spelled one way in the NT, but I've also seen "Josephus" in non-Biblical references.

But this creates some confusion in trying to apply Greek to the gematria of the AC, since it's possible his name will be spelled differently depending on the declension, and which do you use as a test for 666?

We get "Jesus" from "Jesous", in that English transliterations of Greek names are traditionally take nfrom the Nominative form most of the time. "Jason" evolved from "Jesoun", but "Jesse" came from a different Hebrew name, not from "Jese" or the Vocative form of "Jesus".

In the above...

J = Iota = 10
e = eta = 8, except in "Jese" which is spelled Iota, Eta, Sigma, Epsilon
s = Sigma = 200
o = Omicron = 70
u = upsilon = 400
oo = Omega = 800
n = nu = 50
a = alpha = 1

Shalom,

Josephus