Jewish Gematria

In modern calculator sites, "Jewish gematria" almost always names one specific thing: the letter-value table Cornelius Agrippa published in the sixteenth century, which assigns values to the Latin alphabet modelled on the Hebrew system. The word "jewish gematria" itself sums to 148 in English Ordinal but 1845 under the Jewish (Agrippa) table — a large gap that makes the cipher one of the most distinctive in any multi-cipher output.

Where the table comes from

Agrippa's De occulta philosophia borrowed the Hebrew letter values and extended them to A–Z, giving values that are mostly 1–9 and multiples of 6 (10, 20, 30 … up to 90, then 100, 200, 300, 400 with irregularities). Because the mapping differs from plain a=1…z=26, the same English word gets two unrelated totals: "gematria" is 74 in Ordinal and 233 in Jewish. Neither is wrong; they answer to different rules.

Jewish gematria vs Hebrew gematria

Hebrew gematria calculates Hebrew characters; Jewish gematria, as the calculators use the term, calculates English spellings with Agrippa's values. The two are related but not interchangeable, and results should never be mixed in one comparison. The Hebrew gematria guide covers the original system and its final-letter conventions.

Calculate and match

The gematria calculator computes the Jewish (Agrippa) value alongside seven other ciphers for any word, name or phrase, and each total links to its number page so you can see every indexed term that shares it. For the calculator-first view of English input, see the English gematria calculator.