A well-known example of Hebrew gematria is the first sentence of the ... kept secret until modern times is that two letters of the alphabet hold the value 3, and another two letters hold the ...

To first explain Schramm’s question to the rest of you, gematria is the Hebrew term ... each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet also represents a number, ranging from one, which is the ...

I recently came across a gematria calculation in the Hebrew ... where each line begins with a successive letter in the Hebrew alphabet. It is called the Eshet Ḥayil (אשת חיל, woman of ...

One clear reason why: Her calculator was using English, not Hebrew — already ... its system “simple gematria,” assigning values to each letter of the English alphabet based on its order ...

Gematria (from the Greek word geometria) is the process by which numerical values are assigned to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. And so many gematrias in widespread use are as trite as that joke.

Sources: Spice of Torah Gematria by Gutman Locks (Judaica Press, 1985), Billhedric.com and a number of Hebrew Lexicon books. The alphabet conversion table can be found at Jewishfaq and the ...