Hebrew Gematria Calculator

How to use it

1. Enter the Hebrew text. A word, a name or a whole verse. Vowel points and cantillation marks can stay in.
2. Choose the methods. All four are ticked to start. Untick any you don’t need.
3. Read the totals. Each method gets its own number. Under them you’ll see how many letters, words and final letters were counted.
4. Check the breakdown. The letter table shows every letter’s value and running total in each method. The last table lists what wasn’t counted.

What Hebrew gematria is

Gematria gives each Hebrew letter a number and adds the numbers up to get a value for a word or phrase. The same letter values are used as ordinary numerals in Hebrew. The Hebrew calendar year, for example, is written with letters.

What a total means is a matter of interpretation, and traditions differ. This page only does the arithmetic. It tells you which method it used and which characters it counted, so you can check the result against another source.

How Hebrew letters get their values

The 22 letters split into three groups of units, tens and hundreds, in alphabet order:

• Alef to tet are 1 to 9.
• Yod to tsadi are 10 to 90.
• Qof to tav are 100 to 400.

Five letters have a separate form used at the end of a word: ך ם ן ף ץ. How those final forms are counted is where the methods start to differ.

Hebrew gematria chart

Every character the calculator counts, with its value in each method.

The four methods, and what each does with final letters

מלך is mem, lamed and final kaf, which is why it’s a handy test. Only the kaf changes between methods: 20 in the standard method, 500 in Mispar Gadol, 2 in Mispar Katan, and 11 in Mispar Siduri.

One variant to know about. For Mispar Katan, some calculators reduce the large value of a final letter, so ך becomes 5 instead of 2. This calculator always reduces the standard value and doesn’t mix the two. If another calculator gives a different Katan total for a word with a final letter, that’s the likely reason.

The calculator also counts characters exactly as they’re written. A final form keeps its final value even if it appears in the middle of a word, and a regular form at the end of a word keeps its regular value.

Which characters count

Precomposed letters matter more than they sound. Pointed text copied from some Bible software uses single characters for a letter with its mark. One of the calculators ranking for this search drops those letters, and returns 76 for שלום typed that way instead of 376.

Worked examples

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם

This is the example the Load an example button fills in. It’s pointed, so you can also see the marks being ignored.

Both words end in final mem. That’s why Mispar Gadol adds 560 to each word: the mem counts 600 instead of 40.

Genesis 1:1

Pasted with full vowel points and cantillation, the first verse of Genesis gives these standard values:

In Mispar Gadol the same verse is 4,631. אלהים and השמים each end in final mem (+560), and הארץ ends in final tsadi (+810).

Mixed text

Hello שלום 123! gives 376 in the standard method, the same as שלום on its own. The calculator lists the 11 characters it skipped: five Latin letters, three digits, one exclamation mark and two spaces.

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