If anyone has insight let him calculate the number of the Beast.

I was reading Revelations 13:18.

"This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is a man's number. His number is 666".

So who is this Beast of the Earth with a number 666. Maybe the gematria can tell us something.

The letter-numbers for 666 are:

600 Final Mem (Sofit)
60 Samekh
6 Vav

Total = 666, and Sum = 1+8 = 9

The word would represented by the number 666 would contain Vav Samekh Mem Sofit

Or VavSamMem - I'll search around on Google and see what I can find. VSM

alef = 1
bet = 2
gimmel = 3
dalet = 4
he = 5
vav = 6
zayin = 7
chet = 8
tet = 9
yud = 10
kaf = 20
lamed = 30
mem = 40
nun = 50
samekh = 60
`ayin = 70
pe = 80
tsaddai = 90
qof = 100
resh = 200
shin = 300
tav = 400

For numbers higher than 400, two methods have been applied: One method will use combinations of these numbers; for instance, 700 = 400 + 300 and they will use the tav and the shin to represent 700.

The second method uses the ending letters, letters that have a second form when they are used at the end of a word. These include kaf sofit, mem sofit, nun sofit, pe sofit, and tsaddai sofit:

kaf sofit = 500
mem sofit = 600
nun sofit = 700
pe sofit = 800
tsaddai sofit = 900

Then, for 1000, they will reuse the letters, thus alef can also represent 1000, etc.

Therefore, the number 666 could be 6 or vav, 60 or samekh, and 600 or mem sofit. This combination would be written as vav-samekh-mem sofit OR as samekh-vav-mem sofit, since mem sofit would have to be at the end of the name. This transliterates to VSM or SVM. Samekh is sometimes transliterated as a "C" as pronounced in "cell" to get either VCM or CVM.

Using the first method, the number 666 could be 6 or vav, 60 or samekh, and 400 or tav and 200 or resh. This combination would be written as...

vav-samekh-tav-resh = VCTR or VSTR,
vav-samekh-resh-tav = VCRT or VSRT,
vav-tav-samekh-resh = VTCR or VTSR,
vav-tav-resh-samekh = VTRC or VTRS,
vav-resh-samekh-tav = VRCT or VRST,
vav-resh-tav-samekh = VRTC or VRTS,
samekh-vav-tav-resh = CVTR or SVTR,
samekh-vav-resh-tav = CVRT or SVRT,
samekh-tav-vav-resh = CTVR or STVR,
samekh-tav-resh-vav = CTRV or STRV,
samekh-resh-vav-tav = CRVT or SRVT,
samekh-resh-tav-vav = CRTV or SRTV,
tav-vav-samekh-resh = TVCR or TVSR,
tav-vav-resh-samekh = TVRC or TVRS,
tav-samekh-vav-resh = TCVR or TSVR,
tav-samekh-resh-vav = TCRV or TSRV,
tav-resh-vav-samekh = TRVC or TRVS,
tav-resh-samekh-vav = TRCV or TRSV,
resh-vav-samekh-tav = RVCT or RVST,
resh-vav-tav-samekh = RVTC or RVTS,
resh-samekh-vav-tav = RCVT or RSVT,
resh-samekh-tav-vav = RCTV or RSTV,
resh-tav-vav-samekh = RTVC or RTVS, or
resh-tav-samekh-vav = RTCV or RTSV.