Eleven

Islam

• Eleven appears in Islam.

  The Qur’an (12:4) has Joseph tell of eleven stars with the sun and moon in his dream. Islamic eleven-count attestation in that revelation, not zodiac mysticism dumps and not seven as the heavens count.

  from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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• Eleven is used in Half.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, the temple front is divided into eleven parts and a half (excluding substructures and base projections) — eleven-and-a-half is the module count of that front division.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Eleven is used in Fourteenth.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, on the fourteenth of Nisan at eleven o’clock they burn the common bread to show the prohibition of leaven — eleven o’clock on the fourteenth is that bread-burn hour.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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• Eleven is used in Passover.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the eleven o’clock bread-burn sits on the Passover vigil calendar of Nisan — eleven marks that Passover-eve clearing hour.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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• Eleven is used in Fifteenth.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, Passover begins with the fifteenth of Nisan, and the eleventh-hour clearing is done the evening before — eleven o’clock clears for that fifteenth feast start.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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• Two hundred is used in Eleven.

  In Agricola’s De Re Metallica, the Venetians divide the bes into eleven hundred and fifty-two siliquae, or two hundred and eighty-eight units — two-hundred-eighty-eight is that Venetian unit count.

  from Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover (translation) · De Re Metallica, 1556 Latin; Hoover English 1912

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• Eighteen is used in Eleven.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, a temple front may be divided into eleven parts and a half among the eighteen-part hexastyle family of module counts — eleven-and-a-half is a named module division.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Right angle is associated with Eleven.

  In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, a Greek measure of eleven finger-breadths sits among right-angle (ortho-) jaw and angle lemmas — eleven finger-breadths neighbor that right-angle lexicon.

  from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)

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• Thousandfold is associated with Eleven.

  In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, maize may increase four thousandfold, and some ears have had eleven offshoots — eleven offshoots sit with that thousandfold increase note.

  from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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