Every Hebrew letter carries a numerical value. Type or paste a Hebrew word or phrase below to see it
calculated across six methods at once. No Hebrew keyboard? Use the on-screen letters.
Or use the free gematria calculator on the homepage
to compare Hebrew with English and Greek ciphers at once.
Results for every cipher will appear here as you type.
How to calculate Hebrew gematria
To calculate Hebrew gematria, replace each letter with its number and add the numbers
together. Under the default method, Mispar Hechrachi (Standard Value), the first nine
letters count 1 to 9, the next nine count 10 to 90, and the last four count 100 to 400. Vowel points
never add value.
Write the word in Hebrew letters, spelled exactly as it appears in your source.
Look up each letter in the table below. Under Standard Value, a final form shares its base letter's value.
Add the values. For שלום: ש 300 + ל 30 + ו 6 + ם 40 = 376.
If you are comparing words, check a second method too. שלום is 52 in Ordinal Value and
936 in Full Value, because Full Value gives the final ם its own value of 600.
Worked examples
Word
Meaning
Letters
Standard Value
חי
chai, "life"
8 + 10
18
אחד
echad, "one"
1 + 8 + 4
13
אהבה
ahavah, "love"
1 + 5 + 2 + 5
13
שלום
shalom, "peace"
300 + 30 + 6 + 40
376
אחד ("one") and אהבה ("love") both total 13, a pairing often cited in Jewish teaching as an example
of gematria linking two words. The arithmetic is exact; the connection is interpretive.
Hebrew letter values
Letter
Name
Standard
Ordinal
Reduced
א
Aleph
1
1
1
ב
Bet
2
2
2
ג
Gimel
3
3
3
ד
Dalet
4
4
4
ה
He
5
5
5
ו
Vav
6
6
6
ז
Zayin
7
7
7
ח
Chet
8
8
8
ט
Tet
9
9
9
י
Yod
10
10
1
כ
Kaf
20
11
2
ל
Lamed
30
12
3
מ
Mem
40
13
4
נ
Nun
50
14
5
ס
Samekh
60
15
6
ע
Ayin
70
16
7
פ
Pe
80
17
8
צ
Tsadi
90
18
9
ק
Qof
100
19
1
ר
Resh
200
20
2
ש
Shin
300
21
3
ת
Tav
400
22
4
Final forms: ך (final Kaf) = 20, or 500 in Full Value; ם (final Mem) = 40, or 600 in Full Value; ן (final Nun) = 50, or 700 in Full Value; ף (final Pe) = 80, or 800 in Full Value; ץ (final Tsadi) = 90, or 900 in Full Value. For every method side by side, see the full Hebrew letter value chart.
The 6 Hebrew gematria methods, explained
Mispar Hechrachi (Standard Value)
Mispar Hechrachi ("Standard Value") is the default and most widely cited Hebrew gematria system. Each letter carries the value of its position in a ones-tens-hundreds structure: א (Aleph) through ט (Tet) count 1-9, י (Yod) through צ (Tsadi) count 10-90 in steps of ten, and ק (Qof) through ת (Tav) count 100-400 in steps of one hundred. Final (sofit) letter forms use the same value as their base letter. This is the system behind the most famous gematria identities, such as חי (chai, "life") = 18.
Mispar Siduri (Ordinal Value)
Mispar Siduri ("Ordinal Value") ignores the ones-tens-hundreds structure entirely and simply counts each letter's position in the 22-letter Hebrew alphabet, from א=1 to ת=22. Final forms use the same ordinal as their base letter. This produces much smaller totals than Standard Value and is often used to cross-check whether two words are related independent of the larger Standard-Value system.
Mispar Gadol (Full/Sofit Value)
Mispar Gadol ("Full Value" or "Sofit Value") is identical to Mispar Hechrachi except for how it treats the five Hebrew letters that have a special final form when they appear at the end of a word (ך, ם, ן, ף, ץ). Instead of reusing the base letter's value, these final forms are assigned their own extended values: ך=500, ם=600, ן=700, ף=800, ץ=900, continuing the counting pattern beyond ת=400.
Mispar Katan (Reduced Value)
Mispar Katan ("Reduced Value" or "Small Value") takes each letter's Standard Value and reduces it to a single digit, most simply by dropping any trailing zeros (so ק=100 becomes 1, and ר=200 becomes 2). It is the Hebrew-alphabet parallel to English Full Reduction / Pythagorean numerology, and is popular for reducing large word totals down to a single meaningful digit.
Atbash Cipher
Atbash is one of the oldest known substitution ciphers, first attested in Hebrew scripture itself (e.g. "Sheshach" in Jeremiah is Atbash for "Bavel," Babylon). Each letter is swapped with its mirror-image partner across the alphabet (the first letter swaps with the last, the second with the second-to-last, and so on), and the substituted text is then valued using Standard Gematria.
Albam Cipher
Albam ("AlBaM") is a substitution cipher that splits the 22-letter alphabet into two halves of eleven letters each and swaps each letter with its counterpart in the other half (the 1st letter swaps with the 12th, the 2nd with the 13th, and so on). Like Atbash, the resulting substituted letters are then valued using Standard Gematria.
Other traditional methods you may encounter
Hebrew gematria has accumulated dozens of specialized methods over centuries of rabbinic and
kabbalistic use. We calculate the six most commonly cited methods live above; these additional
methods are real and documented, but are not yet available in our live calculator:
Mispar Katan Mispari (Integral Reduced Value): like Reduced Value, but the digits of the full word total are summed down to a single digit, rather than reducing each letter individually.
Mispar Shemi / Milui (Filling Value): each letter is replaced by its full spelled-out name (e.g. א becomes א-ל-ף, "Alef") before the total is calculated.
Mispar Ne'elam (Hidden Value): calculates the value of a letter's spelled-out name minus the value of the letter itself, the "hidden" remainder.
Mispar Kidmi (Cumulative Value): each letter's value is the sum of the standard values of every letter up to and including it in alphabetical order.
Mispar Bone'eh (Building Value): a running cumulative total is kept as each successive letter of a word is added.
Frequently asked questions
Which Hebrew gematria method should I use?
Mispar Hechrachi (Standard Value) is the default used in the vast majority of traditional and modern Hebrew gematria, so start there. The other methods (Ordinal, Full, Reduced, Atbash, Albam) are used to cross-check whether two words are meaningfully connected across multiple systems, not as replacements for Standard Value.
Why does חי (chai) equal 18?
Under Mispar Hechrachi (Standard Value), ח (Chet) = 8 and י (Yod) = 10, which sum to 18. This is the most famous gematria identity in Jewish culture. It is why 18, and multiples of 18, are considered symbolically significant ("chai" means "life"), and why gifts of money are traditionally given in multiples of 18.
Do final letters (sofit) change the value?
It depends on the method. Under Standard Value (Mispar Hechrachi) and Ordinal Value (Mispar Siduri), final letters share their base letter's value. Under Full Value (Mispar Gadol), the five final letters (ך ם ן ף ץ) get their own higher values (500-900) instead.
Can I use this without a Hebrew keyboard?
Yes. Click "Type with on-screen letters" under the input box to open a Hebrew keyboard with all 22 letters plus the five final forms (ך ם ן ף ץ). You can also paste Hebrew from any source: vowel points (nikud) and cantillation marks are ignored automatically, so pointed text from a siddur or Tanakh gives the same result as plain consonants.
How do I find the gematria of my Hebrew name?
Type or paste your name in Hebrew letters, not in English transliteration. The value depends entirely on spelling: שרה (Sarah) is 505 under Standard Value, and a different Hebrew spelling of a name will total differently. If you only know the English spelling, use our Name Gematria calculator, which values English, Hebrew, and Greek input.
Is this the same as a "Jewish gematria calculator"?
If you're looking to calculate actual Hebrew letters, yes: this is what most people searching "Jewish gematria calculator" want. Be aware that some English-language calculators use "Jewish Gematria" as the name of a specific English-letter cipher (a ones/tens/hundreds table modeled on Hebrew's structure, not actual Hebrew text). We calculate that separately on our English gematria calculator so the two are never confused.
Is this also a "Hebrew numerology calculator"?
People searching "Hebrew numerology calculator" almost always mean this exact tool: calculating the numeric value of Hebrew letters and words. Strictly speaking, "gematria" is the more accurate term for this Hebrew-letter practice; "numerology" more precisely refers to the separate tradition of interpreting personal names and birthdates (see our Pythagorean and Chaldean numerology calculators). We use both terms here since that's how people actually search. See our Gematria vs. Numerology guide for the real distinction.