The number 36

Enemy, adversary

Bullinger's Number in Scripture has no treatment of thirty-six, and no verse assigns the number a meaning of enmity or opposition. Some modern numerology reasons from the arithmetic that thirty-six is six squared, and since Bullinger elsewhere treats six as man's number, marking his distance from God's completeness in seven, reads the square as concentrated human opposition; that is arithmetic extrapolation, not a claim Bullinger or scripture makes. Scripture's occurrences of the number are ordinary counts, such as the thirty-six men of Israel struck down in the first, failed assault on Ai (Joshua 7:5). The label 'enemy, adversary' (Ed F. Vallowe, Biblical Mathematics, 1998) should be presented to readers plainly as later tradition, not the text's own statement.

The mathematics

36 = 6², and also the eighth triangular number — the smallest number above one that is both square and triangular. The next one is 1,225.
36 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ = (1 + 2 + 3)² — the smallest case of the rule that the cubes always add up to a square.
Highly composite: nine divisors, more than any smaller number.

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In Hebrew and Greek

Hebrew

Shloshim v'shesh (שְׁלוֹשִׁים וְשֵׁשׁ) - thirty-six

Greek

Triakonta hex (τριάκοντα ἕξ) - thirty-six

First occurrence

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

The pattern in Scripture

36 died at Ai (Josh 7:5)
6x6 = human weakness squared
36 hidden righteous in Jewish tradition (Tzadikim Nistarim)

36:36 verses

Genesis 36:36

And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

Exodus 36:36

And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of...

Ezekiel 36:36

Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, a...