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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shi‘ite in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shi‘ite in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of shi‘ite in a Sentence

  1. Saed Saif:

    The Iranian Shi'ite militias are continuing to pour reinforcements into the Badia to expand their area of control. We are doing what we can to repel them.

  2. John Bolton:

    We are very concerned about the Quds Force and Qassem Soleimani using Shi'ite militia groups and others in Iraq as indirect ways to attack our embassy in Baghdad, consulate in Erbil, our various bases around the country.

  3. Foad Izadi:

    In the Assembly of Experts the principalists( hardliners) lost seats. That part is more complicated because the people sitting there are theologians, jurists not necessarily politicians, but they do have a lot of power, in the Shi’ite theology the leader is not infallible.

  4. Benjamin Netanyahu:

    That is a recipe for a re-inflammation of another civil war - I should say a theological war, a religious war - and the sparks of that could be millions more that go into Europe and so on ... And that would cause endless upheaval and terrorism in many, many countries, obviously we are not going to let them do it. We'll fight them. By preventing that - and we have bombed the bases of this, these Shi'ite militias - by preventing that, we are also offering, helping the security of your countries, the security of the world.

  5. Hadi Ghaemi:

    Shi'ite clerics are really masters of the art of the deal, so while it is important how big your faction is in the Assembly of Experts it does depend on who the charismatic dealmaker is at that time.

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