Gematria · Isopsephy

Every letter was
also a number.

Type a word or phrase in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek. The tally shows how the value is built, letter by letter, using the standard system for whichever script you pick.

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Neither Hebrew nor Greek had separate digits. Scribes counted with the alphabet itself: in Greek the Milesian system ran alpha through theta for 1 to 9, iota through koppa for the tens, rho through sampi for the hundreds, and Hebrew and Aramaic used the same convention with their twenty-two letters. Adding up a word's letters as numbers is called gematria in Hebrew sources and isopsephy in Greek ones.

The practice is inside the text, not only around it. Revelation 13:18 asks the reader to reckon the number of the beast and writes it with three Greek numeral letters. Rabbinic literature uses gematria as remez, a hint that draws two passages alongside each other, and several church fathers used isopsephy the same way: Irenaeus tested Greek names that total 666 without claiming to have settled the question.

Equal values do not by themselves establish a link between two words. Any vocabulary large enough will produce coincidences at every number. A shared value is a place to start looking, not an argument. Vowel points, breathings, accents, and punctuation carry no numeric value and are ignored here.

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