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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Two Hundred:

occurs in Mar 6:37; Jhn 6:7; 21:8; Act 23:23 (twice); 27:37, "two hundred (threescore and sixteen);" Rev 11:3, "(a thousand) two hundred (and threescore);" so Rev 12:6.

Note: In Act 27:37, some ancient authorities read "about threescore and sixteen souls" (RV, margin). The confusion was quite natural when the word diakosioi was not written in full but represented by one Greek letter. The larger number is by no means improbable: Josephus sailed for Rome in A.D. 63 in a ship which had 600 on board (Life, ch. 3).