Gematria assigns a number to every letter, so any word or phrase can be added up to a single value. This calculator handles all three traditions from one input — Hebrew, Greek isopsephy and modern English systems — and lets you switch between seven counting methods, because the same Hebrew word gives different totals depending on which one a source used. Below you'll find the full letter tables, the notable values with their primary sources, and a plain account of what gematria can and cannot show.
Hebrew, Greek and English from one input. The active counting method is always named in the result, so a copied value is never ambiguous.
Base values 1 to 400; final forms take their base value.
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Working in Greek? The Greek gematria calculator goes deeper on isopsephy, Milesian numerals and the archaic letters.
Gematria is the practice of calculating the numeric value of a Hebrew word by adding up the values of its letters, and then treating words that share a value as related in some way. It is possible because Hebrew, like Greek, had no separate numerals — the letters served as numbers, so every written word already carried a total.
In Jewish tradition it is an established interpretive method rather than a fringe curiosity. It appears in rabbinic literature from the Talmudic period onward, is listed among the thirty-two hermeneutical rules attributed to Rabbi Eliezer ben Yose ha-Gelili, and became prominent in Kabbalistic writing from the medieval period. The reasoning is typically homiletic: a numeric equivalence is offered as a way of drawing out a connection between two ideas, not as proof that the connection exists.
The classic example is חי, chai, meaning 'life', which totals 18. This is why charitable gifts in Jewish practice are often made in multiples of eighteen — a gift of 180 or 1,800 is a wish for life. The number carries meaning because a community has agreed it does, which is a different kind of claim from saying the number reveals something hidden.
Two things worth being clear about before the tables below. First, gematria as practised in Jewish tradition operates on Hebrew, and its authority comes from that textual tradition. Modern systems that assign numbers to the English alphabet are twentieth-century inventions with no connection to it, whatever they are called. Second, any large vocabulary contains many words that happen to share a total, so a numeric match on its own establishes nothing. Traditional sources use gematria to illustrate a point already argued on other grounds — which is the honest way to read it.
If two gematria tools give you different numbers for the same Hebrew word, they are almost certainly using different counting methods without saying so. There are several established methods, all legitimate, and a source that quotes a value without naming its method has given you an ambiguous figure.
The default and by far the most common. Each letter takes its base value, א through ת running 1 to 400, and the five final forms take the same value as their ordinary counterparts. When a source says 'the gematria of' something without qualification, this is nearly always what is meant.
Identical except that the five final forms continue the sequence: final kaf 500, final mem 600, final nun 700, final pe 800, final tsadi 900. This extends the system to 900 and is the direct cause of most disagreements between calculators, because it only changes the answer for words ending in one of those five letters. מלך is 90 standard and 570 in gadol.
Letters are numbered by position, 1 to 22, rather than by their numeral value. Aleph is 1, tav is 22. Produces much smaller totals and is used where a compact number is wanted.
Values are reduced by dropping trailing zeros, so 20 becomes 2, 300 becomes 3, and so on. Mispar katan mispari takes this further by repeatedly summing digits until a single digit remains — the digital root.
These are substitution ciphers rather than counting methods: atbash swaps the first letter for the last, second for second-to-last, and so on, so aleph becomes tav and bet becomes shin. Albam splits the alphabet in half and maps one half onto the other. Atbash appears in the Hebrew Bible itself — Jeremiah writes Sheshach for Babel — which makes it the oldest attested technique of this family.
Several systems assign numbers to the Latin alphabet and are commonly described as gematria. They are modern, they are not part of the Jewish tradition, and they do not agree with each other. This is worth stating plainly because most sites presenting them do not.
Simple or ordinal gematria runs A=1 to Z=26 and is the most widely used. Reverse ordinal inverts it, Z=1 to A=26. Pythagorean reduction, borrowed from numerology, cycles 1 to 9 across the alphabet. Some sites also use a system multiplying ordinal values by six, which produces the large numbers often seen in numerological content online. All of these are internally consistent and none has any claim to traditional authority, so a value produced by one of them is a fact about that system rather than about the word.
The full alphabet in the two most-used methods, plus ordinal position. This is the table the calculator reads from.
| Letter | Name | Standard (hechrachi) | Large (gadol) | Ordinal (siduri) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| א | aleph | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ב | bet | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| ג | gimel | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| ד | dalet | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| ה | he | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| ו | vav | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| ז | zayin | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| ח | chet | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| ט | tet | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| י | yod | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| כ | kaf | 20 | 20 | 11 |
| ך | kaf sofit | 20 | 500 | 11 |
| ל | lamed | 30 | 30 | 12 |
| מ | mem | 40 | 40 | 13 |
| ם | mem sofit | 40 | 600 | 13 |
| נ | nun | 50 | 50 | 14 |
| ן | nun sofit | 50 | 700 | 14 |
| ס | samekh | 60 | 60 | 15 |
| ע | ayin | 70 | 70 | 16 |
| פ | pe | 80 | 80 | 17 |
| ף | pe sofit | 80 | 800 | 17 |
| צ | tsadi | 90 | 90 | 18 |
| ץ | tsadi sofit | 90 | 900 | 18 |
| ק | qof | 100 | 100 | 19 |
| ר | resh | 200 | 200 | 20 |
| ש | shin | 300 | 300 | 21 |
| ת | tav | 400 | 400 | 22 |
| Method | Hebrew name | How it works | מלך (melech) = | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Mispar hechrachi | Base values 1-400; finals use base | 90 | The default meaning of 'gematria' |
| Large | Mispar gadol | Finals continue 500-900 | 570 | Differs only for words ending in ךםןףץ |
| Ordinal | Mispar siduri | Position in alphabet, 1-22 | 36 | 40 → 13, 30 → 12, 20 → 11 |
| Reduced | Mispar katan | Trailing zeros dropped | 9 | 4 + 3 + 2 |
| Digital root | Mispar katan mispari | Digits summed to one figure | 9 | From standard 90 → 9 + 0 |
| Atbash | — | Substitution: א↔ת, ב↔ש | — | Cipher, not a sum; appears in Jeremiah |
| Albam | — | Alphabet halved and mapped | — | Cipher, not a sum |
| Hebrew | Transliteration | English | Standard value |
|---|---|---|---|
| אהבה | ahavah | love | 13 |
| אחד | echad | one | 13 |
| חי | chai | life | 18 |
| יהוה | YHWH | the Tetragrammaton | 26 |
| לב | lev | heart | 32 |
| אדם | adam | human, Adam | 45 |
| חכמה | chochmah | wisdom | 73 |
| אלהים | Elohim | God | 86 |
| הטבע | ha-teva | nature | 86 |
| מלך | melech | king | 90 |
| צדק | tzedek | justice | 194 |
| אור | or | light | 207 |
| רז | raz | secret | 207 |
| ברכה | berachah | blessing | 227 |
| נר | ner | candle | 250 |
| ספר | sefer | book | 340 |
| שנה | shanah | year | 355 |
| משיח | mashiach | messiah | 358 |
| נחש | nachash | serpent | 358 |
| שלום | shalom | peace | 376 |
| אמת | emet | truth | 441 |
| ישראל | Yisrael | Israel | 541 |
| תורה | Torah | Torah | 611 |
| כתר | keter | crown | 620 |
These are the modern systems described above; none carries traditional authority.
| Letter | Simple / ordinal | Reverse ordinal | Pythagorean |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1 | 26 | 1 |
| B | 2 | 25 | 2 |
| C | 3 | 24 | 3 |
| D | 4 | 23 | 4 |
| E | 5 | 22 | 5 |
| F | 6 | 21 | 6 |
| G | 7 | 20 | 7 |
| H | 8 | 19 | 8 |
| I | 9 | 18 | 9 |
| J | 10 | 17 | 1 |
| K | 11 | 16 | 2 |
| L | 12 | 15 | 3 |
| M | 13 | 14 | 4 |
| N | 14 | 13 | 5 |
| O | 15 | 12 | 6 |
| P | 16 | 11 | 7 |
| Q | 17 | 10 | 8 |
| R | 18 | 9 | 9 |
| S | 19 | 8 | 1 |
| T | 20 | 7 | 2 |
| U | 21 | 6 | 3 |
| V | 22 | 5 | 4 |
| W | 23 | 4 | 5 |
| X | 24 | 3 | 6 |
| Y | 25 | 2 | 7 |
| Z | 26 | 1 | 8 |
The mapping is symmetrical: applying atbash twice returns the original letter.
| Letter | Becomes | Letter | Becomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| א aleph | ת tav | ל lamed | כ kaf |
| ב bet | ש shin | מ mem | י yod |
| ג gimel | ר resh | נ nun | ט tet |
| ד dalet | ק qof | ס samekh | ח chet |
| ה he | צ tsadi | ע ayin | ז zayin |
| ו vav | פ pe | פ pe | ו vav |
| ז zayin | ע ayin | צ tsadi | ה he |
| ח chet | ס samekh | ק qof | ד dalet |
| ט tet | נ nun | ר resh | ג gimel |
| י yod | מ mem | ש shin | ב bet |
| כ kaf | ל lamed | ת tav | א aleph |
Most searches that reach a gematria calculator are about a specific number someone encountered elsewhere. Here are the ones that come up most, with the sources, and with a straight answer where the honest answer is that there isn't one.
חי totals 18 in standard gematria. This is the most widely known value in Jewish practice and the reason charitable donations are commonly made in multiples of eighteen. The custom is well documented and current, which makes it the clearest example of gematria functioning as living tradition rather than speculation.
יהוה totals 26. The number appears throughout Kabbalistic literature, often in combination with other values. Note that אהבה (love) and אחד (one) each total 13, and 13 + 13 = 26 — a construction cited frequently in Hasidic teaching to link love, unity and the divine name.
The number comes from Revelation 13:18, written in Greek numerals as χξϛ. The most widely held scholarly explanation is a Hebrew gematria: 'Neron Kesar', the Greek form of Nero Caesar transliterated into Hebrew letters as נרון קסר, totals 666 — nun 50, resh 200, vav 6, nun 50, qof 100, samekh 60, resh 200.
The strength of the reading is that it also explains the variant. Some early manuscripts, including Papyrus 115 and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, read 616 instead. The Latin spelling 'Nero Caesar' drops the final nun worth 50, giving exactly 616. Irenaeus knew of the 616 reading in the second century and argued against it. This remains an interpretation rather than a settled fact, but the fact that one spelling difference accounts for both numbers is why it is the standard scholarly view. The Greek numeral side of this is covered in more depth on our Greek gematria page.
This is a case where the honest answer is that there isn't one. 777 has no established meaning in Jewish gematria and no rabbinic source assigns it particular significance. Its currency comes from modern numerological writing, usually as a counterpart to 666, and from English-system calculations where various phrases happen to total 777. If a source tells you 777 means something specific in gematria, ask which tradition and which text it is drawing on.
משיח (messiah) and נחש (serpent) both total 358. The equivalence is cited in Kabbalistic literature as a way of framing the messianic role against the serpent of Eden. It is a genuine example of the interpretive move gematria is used for: the numbers are offered to illustrate a theological reading, not to prove it.
| Value | Word or phrase | Tradition | Source or status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | אהבה / אחד | Hebrew | Standard; both love and one |
| 18 | חי | Hebrew | Living custom; gifts in multiples of 18 |
| 26 | יהוה | Hebrew | Tetragrammaton; 13 + 13 |
| 86 | אלהים / הטבע | Hebrew | Cited Kabbalistic equivalence |
| 207 | אור / רז | Hebrew | Light and secret; cited in Zohar tradition |
| 358 | משיח / נחש | Hebrew | Kabbalistic; messiah and serpent |
| 376 | שלום | Hebrew | Standard calculation |
| 611 | תורה | Hebrew | Standard calculation |
| 616 | נרו קסר | Hebrew | Papyrus 115; Codex Ephraemi variant |
| 666 | נרון קסר | Hebrew | Revelation 13:18; standard scholarly reading |
| 777 | — | None | No traditional source; modern usage only |
| 888 | Ἰησοῦς | Greek | Sibylline Oracles; Irenaeus |
Checking values quoted in commentaries and following the arithmetic behind a homiletic reading. The method selector matters here more than anywhere: a source quoting an unexpected number is usually using mispar gadol or an ordinal count, and the compare-all panel identifies which in one look.
Gematria is a common feature of a d'var Torah or a class, and the sourced values table is built to support that — it shows which equivalences have a documented tradition behind them and which are simply arithmetic.
Most visitors arrive after encountering a number somewhere and wanting to verify it. The tool gives the arithmetic and the tables give the provenance, so a claim can be checked rather than taken on trust.
Anyone working with Hebrew or Greek text where numeric values carry deliberate weight — including crossword and puzzle constructors, who use atbash and ordinal counts as mechanisms.
In Jewish tradition it is an interpretive method: a teacher points out that two words share a numeric value in order to draw a connection between the ideas behind them. It is used in commentary, homiletics and Kabbalistic writing, and in living custom such as giving charity in multiples of 18, the value of chai, meaning life.
666 comes from Revelation 13:18, where it is written in Greek numerals as χξϛ. The standard scholarly reading takes it as a Hebrew gematria of 'Neron Kesar' — Nero Caesar — which totals 666. The variant reading 616 found in some early manuscripts matches the Latin spelling, which is one letter shorter.
The Hebrew Bible never describes the practice, though it does use the atbash cipher — Jeremiah writes Sheshach as a substitution for Babel. Gematria as a named interpretive technique appears in later rabbinic literature. Revelation 13:18 is the closest thing in scripture to an explicit invitation to calculate a number from a name.
777 has no established meaning in Jewish gematria and no rabbinic source treats it as significant. Its familiarity comes from modern numerological writing, usually as a counterpart to 666, and from English letter-value systems in which various phrases total 777.
חי totals 18: chet is 8 and yod is 10. Because the word means 'life', gifts in multiples of 18 are a long-standing custom in Jewish charitable giving — a donation of 180 or 1,800 is a wish for life.
Almost always because they use different counting methods without disclosing it. The most common difference is whether final-form letters take their base values (mispar hechrachi) or continue the sequence to 500-900 (mispar gadol). This calculator names the active method in the result panel for exactly that reason.
Gematria works on the letters of a specific text in a specific language and sits within a documented interpretive tradition. Numerology typically assigns meaning to numbers themselves — birth dates, life-path figures — independent of any text. Modern English letter-value systems sit closer to numerology than to gematria despite the borrowed name.
Atbash is a substitution cipher rather than a counting method: the first letter of the alphabet swaps with the last, the second with the second-to-last, and so on. It appears in the Hebrew Bible itself, where Jeremiah writes Sheshach for Babel, which makes it the oldest attested technique of this family.
No. Systems assigning numbers to the Latin alphabet are twentieth-century inventions with no connection to the Hebrew tradition, and they do not agree with one another. They are internally consistent, so a value from one of them is a fact about that system rather than about the word.
The Tetragrammaton יהוה totals 26 in standard gematria: yod 10, he 5, vav 6, he 5. אלהים (Elohim) totals 86, a value frequently paired in Kabbalistic writing with הטבע (nature), which also totals 86.
There is no evidence for that, and traditional sources do not use it that way. Any large vocabulary contains many words that happen to share a total, so a numeric match on its own establishes nothing — which is why rabbinic sources deploy gematria to illustrate a point already argued on other grounds rather than to discover new claims.
We built the Gematria Calculator because the tools ranking for this term either hide which counting method they use or pad the numbers with invented meaning. This one handles Hebrew, Greek and English from a single input, names the active method in every result, and traces the famous values to their primary sources. This site is a part of the ads4good Network.
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