The number 11
Disorder, incompleteness, judgment
Eleven represents disorder and incompleteness, falling short of twelve (governmental perfection). After Judas' betrayal, eleven apostles remained until Matthias was chosen. It often appears in contexts of judgment or transition.
In Hebrew and Greek
Hebrew
Achad asar (אַחַד עָשָׂר) - eleven
Greek
Hendeka (ἕνδεκα) - eleven
First occurrence
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
The pattern in Scripture
- Eleven apostles after Judas' fall
- Joseph's eleven brothers bowed to him
- Eleven curtains for the tabernacle (Exod 26:7)
Key verses
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, a...
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream...
And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains sh...
The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and th...
And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
11:11 verses
And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their...
And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not fo...
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the...
And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: ...