The number 32
Covenant, fellowship
Thirty-two represents covenant and fellowship. It is 4x8, combining creation with new beginnings. There are 32 times 'God said' appears in Genesis 1.
In Hebrew and Greek
Hebrew
Shloshim u'shnayim (שְׁלוֹשִׁים וּשְׁנַיִם) - thirty-two
Greek
Triakonta duo (τριάκοντα δύο) - thirty-two
First occurrence
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The pattern in Scripture
- 'God said' 32 times in creation narrative
- 4x8 = creation x new beginning
- 32 paths of wisdom (Kabbalistic tradition)
32:32 verses
Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the ...
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which th...
We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inherita...
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of ga...
Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Is...