I'm terrible at time management, but at least I can tell time (and I do have a time machine to make up for lost time.)
Perhaps I'll have a chance to go back to before I started annoying people!
Have you seen this strange but fun trip?
(Mad Max and others: the end of this post from "inventory" on has the info not mentioned previously)
Not all that long ago I posted an interesting detail about the actual statue of David, which Michaelangelo carved from the stone that the first two sculptors rejected. Depending on slightly different versions of events, the first abandoned the project without explanation. The second gave up saying that the stone was... flawed and difficult to work with.
Modern analysis indicates that the marble is indeed full of microscopic holes.
Then along came "Can Do" Michelangelo and the rest is history.
He really inspires. Every work a magnum opus, because he always gave it his all. He made it look so easy.
Michelangelo's David and the case of the missing David
What happened was that I had noticed an anomaly when searching the Strong's index for the Hebrew word "David".
Here you can see it stated (this is a general search for H1732),
Strong's Number H1732 matches the Hebrew דָּוִד (dāviḏ), which occurs 1,075 times in 910 verses in the WLC Hebrew.
Yet in an "advanced" search (in this case limiting the search to "The Old Testament", the only place H1732 is going to appear anyway), there's another David:
KJV Strong's h1732 matches the Hebrew דָּוִד (dāviḏ). "h1732" occurs 1,076 times in 911 verses in your custom selection ' in 'The Old Testament'' in the KJV. Page 2 / 19 exact matches (1Sa 18:16–1Sa 20:35)
The question then is where is David missing in the initial search results, or where is there an extra David in the advanced search?
He is found here, in the very verse where David would be missed:
1Sa 20:18
Then Jonathan said to David, H1732 To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
Neither the online or printed KJVs have this particular David in italics (or brackets), the formatting code for an English word not being present in the original Hebrew. So it looks like he's there.
Yet even though the adv. search says so, "David" (H1732) isn't technically in there. The Hebrew reads, "And Jonathan said to him", which is the vav suffix ("him") attached to the letter lamed ("to").
The letter vav is most commonly used as the letter of connection, the conjunction prefix "and".
And???
Data sheet
Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Date: 1501 - 1504
Collection: SCULPTURE
Technique: Marble
Dimensions: h. 517 cm
Inventory: Inv. Scult. n. 1076
https://www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it/en/artworks/david-michelangelo/
inventory
From Middle English inventorie, from Old French inventoire (whence French inventaire), from Late Latin invent?rium, from Latin inveni? ("to find out").
(operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.
The missing David -- literally 1076 on the list, hiding in plain sight as the most famous statue in the world.
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Jerusalem is of course known as the City of David. "Jerusalem" spelled out by the letters as their names/words = 1076
Then there's the case of the extended fibodiv* string for 14. "David" [דוד] = 14, and the 14th on the list is 1076:
1, 4, 5, 9, 14, 23, 37, 60, 97, 157, 254, 411, 665, 1,076...
*These are numbers n whose representation can be split into two numbers, say a and b, such that the Fibonacci-like sequence which uses a and b as seeds contains n itself.
(the Fibonacci-like sequence using 1 and 4 as seeds, contains 14 itself)
Genesis 1
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
"Observe my statues!"
It's like the stone the builders rejected that became the head of the corner at the very Hub of the Revolution, that dubious zero milestone in the "old city" remnant of the "City on a Hill", "New Jerusalem". The original Jerusalem was known as Je-bus[town].
Below the stone is a plinth inscribed "Boston Stone 1737". There is no plaque and no further elucidation.
1 + 4 + 5 + 9 + 14 + 23 + 37 + 60 + 97 + 157 + 254 + 411 + 665 = 1737
Or in Greek, 1737 is the Philosopher's Stone:
Φιλοσοφική λίθος
The other City of David is Bethlehem, famous for its manger (or even an I beam). In Hebrew, a "crib, manger, feeding trough" is an "ebus", therefore Bethelem is E-bus[town] and Jerusalem is [Je-bus]town.
Mentioned in the same account of David going missing:
1 Samuel 20:6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
Is there not always some iconic movie/dialog that sums up a scene? In this case it was Ellen Griswold explaining,
"Well I-I don't know what to say except it's Christmas, and we're all in misery."
Well, another example of a "giant planetary-scale project of coordinating all of humanity into a single, smoothly operating organism")
Jewish: a French-English portmanteau for "I wish" 🙃
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