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Gematria Calculator (Hebrew & English)

Calculate gematria values for any word or phrase using six classical systems: Hebrew Standard, Hebrew Ordinal, English Ordinal, English Standard (Jewish Cipher), Pythagorean Reduced, and Greek isopsephy.

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Gematria assigns numerical values to letters and sums them for a word or phrase. This calculator supports six traditions: Hebrew Standard (Mispar Hechrachi, aleph=1, yud=10, qof=100, tav=400), Hebrew Ordinal (position 1-22), English Ordinal (A=1..Z=26), English Standard / Jewish Cipher (A=1..I=9, J=10..R=90, S=100..Z=400), English Reduced / Pythagorean (1-9 cycle), and Simple Greek isopsephy (alpha=1..omega=800). Type any word and compare how it scores across methods.

Each method uses its own lookup table. Hebrew Standard treats letters as a base-10 ladder: aleph through tet are 1-9, yud through tsadi are 10-90, qof through tav are 100-400. The Hebrew word chai (ื—ื™, 'life') = chet (8) + yud (10) = 18, which is why 18 is a symbolic number for life in Jewish tradition (gifts in multiples of 18). Shalom (ืฉืœื•ื) = 300 + 30 + 6 + 40 = 376. In English Standard / Jewish Cipher, Jesus = J(10) + e(5) + s(100) + u(300) + s(100) = 515; God = G(7) + o(60) + d(4) = 71. In English Ordinal, Love = L(12) + o(15) + v(22) + e(5) = 54. Greek isopsephy follows the same base-10 ladder: ฮ™ฮทฯƒฮฟฯ…ฯ‚ (Iesous) = 10 + 8 + 200 + 70 + 400 + 200 = 888, a number long discussed in early Christian texts. Spaces, punctuation, and digits are skipped automatically.

Disclaimer: Educational reference for textual study; interpretive meanings vary by tradition and are not predictive.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is gematria?
Gematria is a system that assigns numerical values to the letters of an alphabet so that words and phrases can be summed to a number. It appears in Hebrew Kabbalah and Talmudic exegesis, Greek isopsephy, and later in English-language numerology. Two words with the same total were sometimes read as conceptually linked in classical commentary, though this is a hermeneutic device, not a predictive one.
What is the difference between Hebrew Standard and Ordinal?
Hebrew Standard (Mispar Hechrachi) uses a base-10 ladder: aleph=1, bet=2, ... yud=10, kaf=20, ... qof=100, resh=200, shin=300, tav=400. Hebrew Ordinal (Mispar Sidduri) simply counts each of the 22 letters by position: aleph=1 through tav=22. Standard is the most traditional value used in Kabbalistic texts; Ordinal is a simpler position-based count used for comparative analysis.
What is English Standard (Jewish Cipher)?
English Standard, also called Jewish Cipher or 'English Gematria,' applies the Hebrew base-10 pattern to the 26-letter Latin alphabet: A=1 through I=9, then J=10, K=20, ... R=90, then S=100, T=200, ... Z=800. It tries to mirror the structure of Hebrew gematria for English words. The mapping is a modern construction (popularized in the 20th century) and has no ancient pedigree, but it is the most commonly cited English system.
Why does Pythagorean reduce to 1-9?
Pythagorean numerology, attributed loosely to Pythagorean number mysticism, holds that 1-9 are the fundamental digits and all values reduce back into that range. Each letter is assigned a single-digit value by cycling through 1-9: A=1..I=9, then J=1..R=9, then S=1..Z=8. Mathematically, this is equivalent to taking the English Ordinal value (A=1..Z=26) and doing digital-root reduction, so the system collapses every word to a value between 1 and 9 in further reduction.
Is gematria the same as numerology?
Not exactly. Gematria is specifically the letter-to-number summation method rooted in Hebrew and Greek alphabetic traditions, used historically for textual interpretation. Numerology is a broader popular practice that includes life-path numbers from birthdates, name analysis with reduced sums, and various predictive claims. Gematria is one technique that modern numerology has absorbed, but classical gematria in Jewish and Christian sources is an exegetical tool, not a fortune-telling system.
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