240 Preston Kavanagh of these different versions are included among the 456 Hebrew personal names that could find concealment in the benediction. (The seventh Jehoiachin variation is whynky, but since it contains the same letters as hynwky, it need not be considered.) The 456 had previously been calibrated as to frequency by running them against a large, randomly drawn sample of scripture (23). The measure of frequency was the number of coded spellings a single passage contained divided by its opportunities to make such spellings. The next step was to run these 456 names against the text of Num 6,24-26. Table 2 shows the results. Table 2: Personal Names of High Value Concealed Within Priestly Benediction Personal Hebrew Biblical Spellings/ Search Name Spelling Occurrences Opportunities Value 1 Cushi 4 17/30 A yçwk 2 Shecaniah 2 13/15 A whynkç 3 Jehoiachin 1 14/15 A ˆykywy 4 Jehoiachin 6 13/21 A hynky 5 Jehoiachin 1 14/15 A hynwky 6 Jehoiachin 6 15/21 B whynk 7 Jehoiachin 9 10/12 B ˆykywhy 8 Jehoiachin 0 21/30 B ˆkwy 9 Jecoliah 1 13/15 B whylky This table displays the nine names that the computer search program selected from all names run against the Priestly Benediction. The table’s first two columns give the English and Hebrew versions of the names with highest values. Cushi, Shecaniah, and Jecoliah have one appearance, while Jehoiachin has six. The center column shows how often each version appears in Hebrew scripture. Biblical occurrences range from zero (the jar-handle version of Jehoiachin) to nine. The table’s next column gives the ratios of coded spellings to opportunities within Num 6,24-26. Item 3 of that column summarizes what we already have seen in the prior table. Jehoiachin (ˆykywy) has fourteen encoded spellings in fifteen opportunities. The spellings/opportunities column is only half the story. Unseen is how common or rare the coded name might be within scripture as a whole. Note that Shecaniah with a 13/15 ratio has an A value while Jecoliah with the same 13/15 ratio draws a B. The reason is that Shecaniah has a less-usual coded spelling, which the computer took account of when assigning values. This brings us to the Search Value column. In examining 456 names the (23) The random sample contains 499 passages. Its mean is twenty-seven words, and it has a fifteen-word minimum and a fifty-word maximum. It includes 885 verses, ninety- eight percent of which come from two-verse passages. (The benediction has three short verses.) The random sample’s search program selects the best ratio of spellings to opportunities within passages. The result is that the average lengths of the higher s/o ratios are close to fifteen words, which is the number of words in the Priestly Benediction. The program’s minimum for determining opportunities is fifteen words.