Gematria Calculator - Hebrew Letter Values
Type any Hebrew word to get its numerical value letter by letter, or convert a number into traditional Hebrew letters.
Word → Value
The value appears here as you type. Try one of the examples below.
Number → Hebrew Letters
Enter a number (1–9999) to see it written the traditional way, as used in Hebrew dates and book chapters. 15 and 16 are written ט״ו and ט״ז instead of י+ה and י+ו, to avoid spelling a name of God.
Enter a number from 1 to 9999.
Gematria - גמטריה
Before modern numbers arrived, Hebrew letters were the numbers. Each of the 22 letters carries a fixed numerical value. This system is called Gematria (גִּמַטְרִיָּה) and it has been part of Hebrew for over 2,000 years.
The values follow a simple pattern: the first 9 letters count 1-9, the next 9 count by tens (10-90), and the last 4 count by hundreds (100-400).
| Ones (1-9) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| א 1 |
ב 2 |
ג 3 |
ד 4 |
ה 5 |
ו 6 |
ז 7 |
ח 8 |
ט 9 |
| Tens (10-90) | ||||||||
| י 10 |
כ 20 |
ל 30 |
מ 40 |
נ 50 |
ס 60 |
ע 70 |
פ 80 |
צ 90 |
| Hundreds (100-400) | ||||||||
| ק 100 |
ר 200 |
ש 300 |
ת 400 |
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How it works: To find the value of a word, add up the values of its letters. For example, חַי (khai, "alive") = ח (8) + י (10) = 18. That's why 18 is a lucky number in Jewish culture - it equals "life."
Where you'll see it: Hebrew dates on calendars, page numbers in religious books, chapter/verse numbering, and the symbolic study of word values in Jewish tradition.
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Numbers 1–30 in Hebrew Letters
These are the forms you will meet on Hebrew calendars (days of the month), in book chapters and verse numbers. A geresh (׳) marks a single letter used as a number; gershayim (״) go before the last letter of a multi-letter number.
| א׳1 | ב׳2 | ג׳3 | ד׳4 | ה׳5 | ו׳6 |
| ז׳7 | ח׳8 | ט׳9 | י׳10 | י״א11 | י״ב12 |
| י״ג13 | י״ד14 | ט״ו15 | ט״ז16 | י״ז17 | י״ח18 |
| י״ט19 | כ׳20 | כ״א21 | כ״ב22 | כ״ג23 | כ״ד24 |
| כ״ה25 | כ״ו26 | כ״ז27 | כ״ח28 | כ״ט29 | ל׳30 |