If you take each letter’s gematria value of יהוה (mispar hechrachi) and square them and then in the end you sum the squares, the value is 186. Squaring each letter individually and then summing them up is called Mispar ha-Meruba ha-Prati (מִסְפָּר הַמְּרוּבָּע הַפְּרָטִי).
Number 186 is an interesting number in terms of the place/location.
The word Makom (186) in Hebrew means place.
“Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off” (Genesis 22:4 KJV)
“And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:” (Exodus 33:21)
Another interesting thing is that the number 186 is the gematria of the word קוֹף (Qof).
The Hebrew letter ק (Qof) has a gematria value of 100.
Also Israel’s value of 541 is the 100th prime number.
Now we know that the speed of light is approximately 186,000 miles per second.
186 *1000
“I am the light of the world” – John 8:12
186 miles per hour is approximately 300 kilometers per hour, a representative of the letter Shin (ש) where we have the word אֵשׂ (fire).
In Midrash Bereishit Rabbah 68:9* “God is the place of the world” signifying his omnipresence.
“the Holy One blessed be He is the place of the world, and His world is not His place.”
God is not limited to a specific location, he can be found anywhere and the place becomes sacred.
“And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.” (Exodus 3:5 KJV)
Mircea Eliade touches on the concept of the Sacred and the Profane. The holy place is a place of the presence of God, a place of order out of the chaos of the profane world.
And at this sacred place we find the center of the world.
This sacred place is the Axis Mundi an archetype that connects God and humans, heaven and earth.
“The CENTER, then, is pre-eminently the zone of the sacred, the zone of absolute reality.”**
If we look at two words Makom and Golgotha they have the same numerical value of 186.
Note: The word Golgotha (Matthew 27:33), or “the place of the Skull” where Christ was crucified is also known as Calvary, a name from Latin word “calvaria” meaning “skull”.
The 186th verse in the Bible is Exodus 10:3.
The 186th prime number is 1109. Interestingly 11/09 (November 9) is the 314th day of the leap year.
The place of profane, a hill of executions now became a sacred place because of the Christ’s crucifixion.
*https://www.sefaria.org/Bereshit_Rabbah.68.9?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
**The Myth of the Eternal Return Cosmos and History, Mircea Eliade, Princeton University Press, 2018, pp. 17.
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