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A thoughtful desk for Hebrew gematria, Arabic Abjad, Aramaic letters, Greek isopsephy, and careful Scripture study. See every calculation. Know which text you are reading.
Open the study desk ↓A WORD IN THE LIGHT
אוֹר
ʾôr · light1 + 6 + 200 = 207
Arithmetic is reproducible.
Meaning asks for context.
START WITH MEANINGFrom an English word
42 sourced choices · 10 concepts · 3 namesFrom an English word
to letters you can study.
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Translation, transliteration, and names
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Arabic and Aramaic are separate languages. Arabic currently has three sourced choices: light, peace and love. Aramaic entries are Biblical Aramaic in square Hebrew script, not a claim about the exact pronunciation used by Jesus. Syriac-script counting is available separately in the calculator; this word finder does not yet contain Syriac entries. The Roman-letter readings are transliterations, not audio pronunciation guides.
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01 / THE LETTER DESK
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Arabic counting rules
Arabic defaults to Eastern (Mashriqi) Abjad. Select Western (Maghribi) in Method to use ص=60, ض=90, س=300, ظ=800, غ=900 and ش=1000; other values stay the same. Vowels, shadda and tatweel are ignored; each written consonant is counted once. Presentation ligatures are expanded. Alif with hamza or madda and alif wasla count as ا (1); ؤ and ئ count by their carrier و (6) and ي (10). This site maps ى to ي (10) and ة to ه (5). These are explicit counting conventions, not universal spelling rules. Standalone ء and unsupported letters are flagged as uncounted. Inspect the normalised text before comparing results.
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CALCULATED TOTAL
207
Normalised text & counting rules
Hebrew vowel points and cantillation, and Greek accents and breathings, are removed for counting. Final sigma and lunate sigma count as σ. Greek iota subscript follows your checkbox setting. The calculator does not translate or correct spelling. Use the English Word Finder to choose a sourced entry.
COMPARE UNDER THE SAME RULES
Another word, another perspective.
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02 / READ BEFORE YOU COUNT
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03 / CHECK THE WORDING
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REFERENCE TEXT · KJVOpen the chapter on Bible Hub ↗
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Letter values
Hebrew standard: א–ט = 1–9, י–צ = 10–90, ק–ת = 100–400. Final forms retain ordinary values, unless Extended finals is selected. Alphabet position uses 1–22; reduced per letter uses 1–9. Atbash substitutes each letter with the opposite end of the 22-letter alphabet (א ↔ ת, ב ↔ ש), then totals standard values. It is a cipher followed by a calculation, not a translation. Original and substituted letters appear together.
Square-script Aramaic uses the same mapping here. This is a letter-counting facility, not an Aramaic translation or grammar tool. Choose Aramaic · Syriac script to count the 22 Syriac letters with values 1–400. Vowel marks are ignored; final semkath ܤ is treated as ܣ (60). Additional letters are flagged, not guessed. This sums written letters and does not decode manuscript number notation or multipliers. Estrangela, Serto and Eastern Syriac are writing styles; their shared encoded letters use the same values here. Display depends on the available font.
Arabic defaults to Eastern (Mashriqi) Abjad. Select Western (Maghribi) in Method to use ص=60, ض=90, س=300, ظ=800, غ=900 and ش=1000; other values stay the same. Vowels, shadda and tatweel are ignored; each written consonant is counted once. Presentation ligatures are expanded. Alif with hamza or madda and alif wasla count as ا (1); ؤ and ئ count by their carrier و (6) and ي (10). This site maps ى to ي (10) and ة to ه (5). These are explicit counting conventions, not universal spelling rules. Standalone ء and unsupported letters are flagged as uncounted. Inspect the normalised text before comparing results.
Arabic Abjad value table · T. S. Beers ↗Greek uses the traditional alphabetic numeral table, including stigma/digamma 6, koppa 90 and sampi 900. Iota subscript is an explicit counting choice. English/Latin A–Z = 1–26 is included for comparison and is not an ancient Hebrew or Greek method.
Jewish background · Chabad ↗On the limits of numerical equivalence ↗
Greek numeral table & bibliography ↗
Text and scholarship
Syriac alphabet and numeral values · BGN/PCGN ↗
The Hebrew examples reproduce traditional biblical text with vowel points, omitting cantillation. Bible Hub provides the displayed text analysis. Greek examples follow eBible.org’s public-domain Textus Receptus edition. WEB Classic excerpts are public domain. KJV quotations use the existing Son of Light dataset.
Lexical notes are concise editorial introductions, with links to the underlying dictionary entries. They are not automated translations or exhaustive definitions. Transliteration is a reading aid, not a reconstructed audio pronunciation.
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Greek text and licence ↗Westminster Hebrew text resource ↗
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