Gematria Calculator
Score a Hebrew word or a Latin name across every rabbinic gematria cipher, with the letter by letter breakdown, the substitution ciphers, and the equal value matches beside each number.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is gematria?
Gematria is the practice of reading a Hebrew word as a number, since every Hebrew letter carries a numeric value: alef is 1, bet is 2, and so on through 400. Words that add to the same total are read as commenting on each other. It is attested from the second century onward and remains one of the standard interpretive tools in rabbinic literature.
Why does a Latin name have more than one Hebrew spelling?
Because there is no standard for writing a Latin name in Hebrew. Every published Hebrew romanization standard maps the other way, from Hebrew into Latin letters, and no two references agree on a rule for the reverse. So a number computed from a Latin name is only honest if you can see the Hebrew it came from. This calculator returns every candidate spelling the letter map produces, each with its own value, and names the one it scored. The map leaves c, e, f, w and x unmapped, so a name carrying one of them is scored from the Hebrew spelling you type instead.
Which gematria ciphers does this calculator use?
Ten rabbinic ciphers and two substitution transformations. The ciphers include mispar hechrachi, the standard absolute value, along with mispar gadol, otiyot be-milui, mispar katan, mispar kidmi, mispar prati, mispar meshulash, mispar musafi and kolel. The two transformations are AtBash, which exchanges each letter for its opposite in the alphabet, and Albam, which splits the alphabet in half and pairs the two series.
What does it mean when two words share a value?
It is read as a link between them, and it is the oldest use of the practice. This calculator lists curated words whose standard value equals yours, with a short note on why the pairing is quoted, so a match is a citation you can follow rather than a coincidence you have to take on trust. Matching is done on the standard reading only, because that is the relation the classical sources draw.
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This calculator uses the same engine behind our Kabbalah API. Gematria with every candidate Hebrew spelling shown, the 72 names, the Tree of Life, the Hebrew birthday, and a cited tradition and century on every cipher.