The number 4
Creation, earth, universality, the world
Four represents the created world and its universality. There are four corners of the earth, four seasons, four winds, and four living creatures around God's throne. It signifies earthly completeness.
In Hebrew and Greek
Hebrew
Arba (אַרְבַּע) - four
Greek
Tessares (τέσσαρες) - four
First occurrence
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
The pattern in Scripture
- Four corners of the earth
- Four seasons
- Four winds (Ezek 37:9)
- Four living creatures (Rev 4:6)
- Four Gospels
Key verses
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into fou...
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And ...
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
4:4 verses
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had re...
And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his ha...
And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord; ...
This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the mos...
But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.