Gematria Calculator
The ancient Jewish art of finding the numeric value of Hebrew letters. Enter any word — in Hebrew or English — and reveal its sacred number across six gematria ciphers.
The Hidden Mathematics of Sacred Text
Gematria — from the Greek gēōmetría by way of rabbinic Hebrew — is the practice of summing the numerical values of letters in a word to reveal a hidden essence. Each of the 22 Hebrew letters carries a fixed value from 1 to 400. Five of them have a "final" form (sofit) used at the end of a word and valued from 500 to 900 in the Mispar Gadol method.
For Kabbalists, gematria is not arithmetic: it is the way the Torah whispers to those who can listen. Two words that sum to the same value are taught to share an inner meaning. The most famous example: Echad (One) and Ahavah (Love) both equal 13 — divine unity and divine love are mathematically the same.
The same number, 13, doubled, gives 26 — the value of the Tetragrammaton, the unspeakable Name of God: Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh = 10+5+6+5 = 26.
Calculate Sacred Value
Enter any word — Hebrew or English — to see its value across all major gematria ciphers.
The Hebrew Numeric Alphabet
22 standard letters plus 5 final forms (sofit). Each letter is at once a sound, a number and a symbol with mystical meaning.
Gematria & Kabbalah
Three interpretive techniques of Kabbalistic Bible reading.
Gematria
Summing the numerical values of letters in a word. Words sharing the same value share an inner essence — the gematric link reveals what the surface text conceals.
Notarikon
Treating each letter of a word as the first (or last) letter of another word — turning every word into an acronym with hidden meaning.
Temura
Letter permutation and substitution — Atbash, Albam and other ciphers that reveal a parallel reading underneath the literal text.
Meaning of Any Number
Type a number to see its traditional Jewish meaning — exact and by digital root.
Words That Share Numbers
Twelve celebrated Hebrew words and the numbers they carry. Click any card to see it computed in the calculator above.
Frequently Asked Questions
Gematria (Hebrew: גימטריה) is the ancient Jewish practice of assigning numerical values to Hebrew letters and finding hidden meaning by summing the values of the letters in a word, phrase or verse. Two words sharing the same numerical value are considered to be mystically connected — sharing an inner essence even when their surface meanings differ.
Gematria is a specific subset of numerology rooted in Hebrew sacred texts. While numerology assigns symbolic meaning to single-digit numbers (1–9), gematria preserves the full sum and looks for resonances — words and verses sharing the same total are seen as related. Gematria is also the parent system from which Greek isopsephy, Latin gematria and Arabic abjad numerology descended.
There are dozens of gematria methods. The five most common Hebrew methods are: Mispar Hechrachi (Standard, A=1 to T=400), Mispar Gadol (final letters get 500–900), Mispar Siduri (Ordinal 1–22), Mispar Katan (Reduced single digits) and Mispar Katan Mispari (Digital Root). The Atbash cipher swaps the first and last letters of the alphabet.
In the Shema, the central Jewish prayer, God is declared 'Echad' (One). The numerical equivalence between Echad and Ahavah (Love) is one of gematria's most celebrated insights: it teaches that divine unity and divine love are not two separate things, but two faces of the same essence.
26 is the value of the Tetragrammaton — the four-letter Name of God: Yod (10) + Heh (5) + Vav (6) + Heh (5) = 26. It is considered the most sacred number in Hebrew mysticism.
Chai (חי), meaning 'life', has a numerical value of 18 (Chet=8 + Yod=10). For this reason, charitable donations and wedding gifts are often given in multiples of 18 — symbolising a wish to give 'life' to the recipient.
Yes. The calculator detects whether your input contains Hebrew characters and applies the appropriate cipher. For English input, it uses Ordinal (A=1 to Z=26), Full Reduction (Pythagorean), Reverse Ordinal and English Jewish Gematria. For historically authentic gematria, however, always use the original Hebrew spelling.
Atbash is a substitution cipher in which the first letter is replaced by the last (Aleph ↔ Tav), the second by the second-to-last (Bet ↔ Shin), and so on. It is the simplest of the temura (substitution) techniques used in Kabbalistic Bible commentary.
Yes — gematria is one of the core hermeneutical tools of Kabbalah, especially of the Zohar and the works of Rabbi Isaac Luria. Kabbalists use gematria together with notarikon (acronyms) and temura (letter permutations) to uncover hidden teachings within the Torah.
In traditional Jewish use, gematria is not used for divination but for textual interpretation and meditation on the unity of Torah. Modern practitioners may use it more personally — to find resonances in their own names or chosen words — but its original spirit is exegetical: to read sacred texts with deeper attention.