What is Jewish gematria?
In Hebrew gematria every letter is also a number: the first nine letters are 1 to 9, the next nine are 10 to 90, and the last are 100 to 400, with the five final letter forms reaching 900 in some methods. The “Jewish” or “English Jewish” cipher borrows that scale and applies it to the Latin alphabet, so you can calculate English words with numbers up to 900.
It is an adaptation, not a translation. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters and English has 26, so a few English letters have no Hebrew counterpart, and different websites resolve that differently. This page uses one common convention, shown in full in the table below, so you can see exactly how every total is built.
How the table is built
The common table works down the alphabet in the Hebrew pattern: A to I are 1 to 9, then K to R are 10 to 80, S is 90, T is 100, U is 200, X is 300, Y is 400 and Z is 500. J, V and W, which are the letters that would otherwise be skipped, take 600, 700 and 900. A word is the sum of its letters, ignoring spaces and punctuation.
Worked examples
Every total below was computed with the same code as the calculator.
Jewish cipher or real Hebrew?
If you are interested in what a Hebrew word adds up to in the tradition itself, use the Hebrew gematria calculator, which counts Hebrew letters and shows the Standard, Gadol, Siduri and Katan methods. The Jewish cipher here is for English text only. Totals for an English word and its Hebrew equivalent are unrelated, so treat any matches between them as coincidence.
For other approaches to English words, the main gematria calculator offers eleven ciphers, and the Greek calculator handles isopsephy. For the background, see the history of gematria and gematria vs numerology.
FAQ
What is the Jewish gematria cipher?
It is an English-letter cipher that gives the Latin alphabet values borrowed from the Hebrew number system: A to I are 1 to 9, K to R are 10 to 80, S is 90, T is 100 and so on up to 900. It lets you calculate English words with Hebrew-style numbers.
Is this the same as real Hebrew gematria?
No. Hebrew gematria adds the values of Hebrew letters. The Jewish cipher is a modern convention that maps English letters onto similar numbers, so the totals for an English word do not equal the totals of its Hebrew equivalent. To calculate real Hebrew words use the Hebrew gematria calculator.
Why do other calculators give different totals?
There is no single agreed table for the English letters J, V and W, which have no Hebrew equivalent. This page uses J = 600, V = 700 and W = 900, a common convention, but some sites use other values for those letters. Check the table before comparing results.
What is the Jewish gematria value of God?
God is G 7 + O 50 + D 4 = 61 in this cipher.
Do spaces and punctuation count?
No. Only the letters A to Z are counted, and capitals and lowercase letters are the same. Numbers, spaces and punctuation are ignored.
How is this different from the main calculator?
The main English gematria calculator offers eleven ciphers, including Ordinal, Reverse, Chaldean and Pythagorean. This page focuses on the single Jewish cipher and shows its full letter table.
Does gematria predict anything?
No. Gematria is a cultural and interpretive tradition. The calculator does arithmetic, and any meaning you draw from a total is a matter of interpretation.