Benjamin

Benjamin is a Hebrew name meaning "son of the right hand," and its length puts it among the higher ordinal values in this dictionary — a useful example of how gematria totals track spelling length as much as, or more than, they track a name's traditional meaning. In the source narrative, the name is given a second, harsher meaning in passing — his dying mother calls him Ben-oni, "son of my sorrow," before his father renames him Benjamin — a detail gematria writers rarely fold into number readings even though the text explicitly weighs two different names against each other. Common short forms like Ben carry entirely different ordinal values, another reminder that gematria measures the exact spelling used, not the underlying name.