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The name Nero Caesar in Hebrew appears as follows

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This is pronounced "Neron Kesar" and has the value of 200 + 60 + 100 and 50 + 6 + 200 + 50.

Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is connected with a number as follows.

Similarly, each letter of the Greek alphabet is connected with a number as follows.

There are three letters that fell out of usage in Greek (marked with an asterisk*), although they appeared as part of the ancient Greek alphabet. Although these were not used on normal Greek words, these ancient characters continued to be used for the purpose of counting and listing numbers.

Using this system, the number 666 is rendered in Greek as "ch-x-st." If vowels were introduced, you might imagine the harsh sounding word "kexist." In Greek, it appears as

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The name of Jesus appears in Greek as follows

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This is pronounced "Iesous" and has the value of 10 + 8 + 200 + 70 + 400 + 200.