The number 200 in the Bible — Outlook · Insufficiency
מָאתַיִם
Two hundred is the number of the human estimate that comes up short. Philip surveyed the crowd and calculated: two hundred denarii of bread is not sufficient — the outlook of arithmetic meeting the sufficiency of God. Achan's eye fell on two hundred shekels and the outlook became a grave; Absalom's two-hundred-shekel hair became his noose. Resh, the head, is exactly this: the reckoning — which without God is insufficiency crowned.
Where 200 shapes the story
John 6:7 — 'Two hundred denarii is not sufficient'
Josh 7:21 — Achan's two hundred shekels
2 Sam 14:26 — Absalom's hair — two hundred shekels a year
Associations
Human calculation vs. divine supplySelf-measurement's blind spot
Occurrences
Gen 11:19Gen 11:21Gen 11:23Gen 11:32Gen 32:14Exod 30:23Num 1:35Num 2:21Num 3:34Num 3:43Num 3:46Num 4:44Num 16:2Num 16:17Num 16:35Num 26:10Num 26:14Josh 7:21Judg 17:41Sam 15:41Sam 18:271Sam 25:131Sam 25:181Sam 30:101Sam 30:212Sam 14:262Sam 15:112Sam 16:11Kgs 7:201Kgs 10:161Kgs 20:151Chr 5:211Chr 7:91Chr 7:111Chr 9:221Chr 12:321Chr 15:61Chr 15:81Chr 25:72Chr 9:152Chr 14:82Chr 17:152Chr 17:162Chr 17:172Chr 28:82Chr 29:32Ezra 2:7Ezra 2:12Ezra 2:19Ezra 2:28Ezra 2:31Ezra 2:38Ezra 2:65Ezra 2:66Ezra 6:17Ezra 8:4Ezra 8:9Ezra 8:20Neh 7:12Neh 7:34+18 more in the app