Temurah and atbash: "Sheshach" = Babel, a letter-swap in the Bible itself (Jeremiah 25:26, 51:41)

Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingDisputed: argued, often by a hostile witnessCode: a stated code

Year: 2026

SUMMARYTemurah and atbash: "Sheshach" = Babel, a letter-swap in the Bible itself (Jeremiah 25:26, 51:41) [Connections: Word coding & Masonic method, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDJeremiah 25:26 (KJV): "the king of Sheshach shall drink after them." Jeremiah 51:41: "How is Sheshach taken! … how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!" The two names stand in parallel lines. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia calls Sheshach "a cypherform of 'Babel' (Babylon)." The method is "substituting the last letter of the alphabet for the first," which turns b-b-l into sh-sh-k. Wikipedia adds that Jeremiah 51:1 "Leb Kamai is code for Chaldea" by the same cipher. The Jewish Encyclopedia ("Anagram," vol. 1, p. 551, by Isaac Broydé) says: "Nearly all the cabalistic writings give rules for composing anagrams, which are called temurah (change)."
CODEThis is a documented substitution key (atbash: first letter ↔ last letter, and so on) applied to a place-name in scripture
DISPUTEDISBE notes "This theory has not failed of opposition"; Delitzsch, Sayce, Cheyne and others proposed other explanations. The Septuagint omits the word in both passages
PATTERNRenaming a place in code is documented in scripture. The key is fixed, and anyone can reverse it
LENS (WW9)This is the best receipt that a place can be "renamed in code." Its strength is the fixed key plus the parallel line that says outright that Sheshach is Babylon
SOURCEKJV Jer. 25:26, 51:41; ISBE, "Sheshach"; Wikipedia, "Sheshach"; Jewish Encyclopedia, "Anagram".
Open in the Library