Gematria calculator
Type a word, name or phrase. English gets Jewish, English and Simple Gematria, Hebrew gets the four classic counts, and both get common words with the same value.
Common words with the same value
Words and short phrases that add up to 74 in Simple Gematria.
Click the box above and start typing, and the words appear here.
Tip: paste Hebrew text (e.g. a name) to get the four classic Hebrew methods.
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The English ciphers
How each English cipher counts a word
None of these is an ancient tradition. They are modern conventions, so use the one your source used.
Jewish Gematria
The English alphabet laid onto the Hebrew number pattern: a to i are 1 to 9, k to s are 10 to 90, and t, u, x, y and z are 100 to 500. The three letters left over take the higher values: j is 600, v is 700 and w is 900.
English Gematria
Each letter's place in the alphabet times six, so a is 6, b is 12 and z is 156. Every total is exactly six times the Simple one.
Simple Gematria
Each letter's place in the alphabet, from a=1 to z=26. Also called English Ordinal, and the plainest of the five.
Full Reduction
Each letter's place in the alphabet, reduced to one digit by adding its digits: j is 10, so it counts 1, and z is 26, so it counts 8.
Reverse Ordinal
The alphabet counted from the other end, so z is 1 and a is 26.
The idea
What is gematria?
Gematria assigns numerical values to Hebrew letters, so words and phrases have totals that can be compared. It appears throughout rabbinic literature, Kabbalah and Torah commentary: two words sharing a value are read as connected in meaning.
The best-known example: חי (chai, "life") equals 18, which is why gifts and charity are often given in multiples of 18.
The standard method (Mispar Hechrachi) runs א=1 through י=10, then by tens to ק=100 and by hundreds to ת=400. Ordinal counts letter positions, reduced collapses to single digits, and Atbash mirrors the alphabet.
The methods
Four ways to add up the same word
They are not competing answers. Each one belongs to a different interpretive tradition, and a commentary will normally say which it is using.
Mispar Hechrachi
Standard
א=1 up to י=10, then by tens to ק=100 and by hundreds to ת=400. This is what a rabbinic source means by gematria unless it says otherwise.
Mispar Siduri
Ordinal
Each letter counts its place in the alphabet, so א=1 and ת=22. Totals come out far smaller than the standard method, which is the point: it puts long words within reach of short ones.
Mispar Katan
Reduced
Every letter collapses to a single digit, so ת=400 becomes 4 and ל=30 becomes 3. Used to link words whose standard totals are nowhere near each other.
The mirrored alphabet
Atbash
The alphabet is reversed before counting: א swaps with ת, ב with ש. Jeremiah 25:26 uses it, writing Sheshach where he means Bavel.
Worked out
Two words, letter by letter
This is the whole arithmetic. Add the standard value of each letter, and that total is the word's gematria.
חי
chai: life
8 + 10 = 18
The reason wedding cheques and charity gifts come in multiples of 18.
שלום
shalom: peace, and also hello and goodbye
300 + 30 + 6 + 40 = 376
Type it into the calculator above and the standard count will match.
Every letter and its standard value
Ones, then tens, then hundreds. Hebrew had no separate numerals, so these letters were the numbers, and gematria is what falls out of that.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Jewish gematria?+
Searchers usually mean a modern English cipher that borrows the Hebrew number pattern: a=1, k=10, t=100, j=600 and so on. It is not the traditional count, which adds up Hebrew letters by the standard method (Mispar Hechrachi).
What is the difference between Jewish, English and Simple gematria?+
Simple counts each letter's place in the alphabet, a=1 to z=26. English multiplies that by six, so its totals are always six times Simple. Jewish gives Hebrew-style values, so its totals run much larger. The word gematria comes to 74 in Simple, 444 in English and 233 in Jewish.
How do I find words with the same value?+
Type a word or name into the calculator and look under the results for common words with the same value. Pick Jewish, English or Simple to choose the cipher, and tap a word to load it. For Hebrew input it lists Hebrew words and names with the same standard value.
What is the gematria of chai (חי)?+
Chai, the Hebrew word for life, has a standard gematria of 18: chet (8) plus yud (10). This is why Jewish gifts and donations are traditionally given in multiples of 18.
Which gematria method should I use?+
The standard method (Mispar Hechrachi, א=1 through ת=400) is what rabbinic sources almost always mean by gematria. The other methods (ordinal, reduced, Atbash) are used for specific interpretive traditions.
Do final letters have different values?+
In the standard method, final forms (ך ם ן ף ץ) carry the same value as their regular forms. Some variant systems assign them 500 to 900, but that is a separate method (Mispar Gadol).
Does English have gematria?+
English has no traditional gematria, but several popular conventions exist: Jewish, English (a=6 to z=156) and Simple (a=1 to z=26), plus Full Reduction and Reverse Ordinal. This calculator shows all five for English text.