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Gematria is the practice of assigning a numeric value to a letter, word, name or phrase, then reading the resulting number as a carrier of meaning. It rests on a simple historical fact: for most of recorded history, the alphabet was the number system. Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Arabic and Latin all used letters as digits long before Hindu-Arabic numerals reached the Mediterranean world, so every written word already carried an unavoidable numeric total. Gematria is what happened when scribes and mystics began treating that total as significant rather than incidental.
The Hebrew tradition is the oldest continuous one. Rabbinic literature calls the method gematria (probably from the Greek geōmetria), and the standard system is Mispar Hechrachi: Aleph is 1, Bet is 2, on through Yod at 10, then in tens to Qof at 100, and in hundreds to Tav at 400. The Sefer Yetzirah and later Kabbalistic works, especially the Zohar, treat the letters as the raw material of creation, which makes their numeric equivalences a legitimate object of study rather than a word game. When two phrases share a value, the tradition reads them as commenting on one another.
The Greek equivalent is isopsephy (ἰσοψηφία, "equal pebbles"), attested in Greek inscriptions, in Suetonius, and most famously in Revelation 13:18, where the number of the beast is offered as a puzzle to a readership expected to know how to add letters. The same convention runs through the New Testament's manuscript tradition and through Greek magical papyri.
English gematria is a modern adaptation. It has no ancient pedigree, but it applies the same mechanics to a 26-letter alphabet, and over the last century it has grown a large body of published cipher tables — Agrippa's Latin correspondences, Francis Bacon's biliteral work, the New Aeon English Qabalah ciphers, and the ordinal and reduction systems that dominate contemporary decoding. This calculator implements all of them side by side so you can compare rather than commit to one.
Every gematria calculation is three steps, regardless of language or cipher:
Worked example in English Ordinal, where A=1 and Z=26:
L(12) + O(15) + V(22) + E(5) = 54
The same word in Full Reduction, where each ordinal value is reduced to 1–9 first:
L(3) + O(6) + V(4) + E(5) = 18
And in Reverse Ordinal, where A=26 and Z=1:
L(15) + O(12) + V(5) + E(22) = 54
Three ciphers, three legitimate readings. This is why serious gematria work always reports multiple ciphers rather than a single number — and why the calculator above shows all 36 at once instead of making you re-run the tool.
The baseline cipher and the most widely used starting point. A=1, B=2, C=3 … Z=26. Also called Simple Gematria or English Simple. It requires no reduction step, is trivially verifiable by hand, and is the cipher most published gematria references default to. Sum range for a single letter: 1–26.
Each ordinal value is reduced to a single digit before summing: A=1 … I=9, J=1 … R=9, S=1 … Z=8. Named for the Pythagorean tradition that treats the digits 1–9 as the complete set of numeric archetypes. This is the cipher underlying most name numerology — Expression and Soul Urge numbers are Full Reduction sums reduced again to a root digit.
The alphabet inverted: A=26, B=25 … Z=1. Reverse ciphers are used as a cross-check. Because reversal preserves the sum of any pairing (A+Z is always 27), agreement between Ordinal and Reverse Ordinal on two different phrases is a stronger signal than either alone.
Reverse Ordinal values reduced to 1–9. A=8, B=7, C=6 … Z=1. The reduction counterpart to Reverse Ordinal.
Identical to the reduction ciphers above, except the master numbers 11 and 22 are left unreduced. In Single Reduction, K=11 and V=22 keep their ordinal values; in Reverse Single Reduction, P=11 and E=22 do. Numerological tradition treats 11 and 22 as master numbers that lose meaning if collapsed.
An English-alphabet cipher that borrows the Hebrew 1-9 / 10-90 / 100-900 architecture: A=1 … I=9, K=10 … S=90, T=100, U=200, X=300, Y=400, Z=500, J=600, V=700, W=900. It is the cipher used by the largest legacy gematria databases and produces the large four-figure totals characteristic of that body of work.
Jewish Reduced collapses each Jewish value to its digital root. Jewish Ordinal replaces each value with its rank position (1–26) in the ascending Jewish table, giving a compact ordinal analogue of the same letter ordering.
A clean 1-9 / 10-90 / 100-800 progression across the full 26-letter alphabet: A–I = 1–9, J–R = 10–90, S–Z = 100–800. Structurally the closest English mirror of Mispar Gadol, and useful when you want the Hebrew place-value logic without the irregular J/V/W assignments of Jewish Gematria.
From Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1533), which set out the Latin alphabet's numeric correspondences for European magical practice. I and J share a value, as do U and V, reflecting the 23-letter Latin alphabet Agrippa was working with.
Case-sensitive: lowercase a=1 … z=26, uppercase A=27 … Z=52. Associated with the Baconian ciphers and the Shakespeare authorship literature. Because it is the only common cipher where capitalization changes the result, it is worth checking whenever the source text has deliberate capitalization.
English Ordinal multiplied by six: A=6, B=12 … Z=156. The multiplier makes 666 reachable by ordinary English words — Sumerian is where most modern 666 decodings originate. Reverse Sumerian applies the same factor to Reverse Ordinal.
Ordinal shifted by 35, giving A=36 … Z=61. Its only real property is that it pushes short words into the 300–600 range, so it appears frequently in decoding work that targets specific three-figure numbers.
A mirrored 1–7 wave: A=1, B=2 … G=7, H=6 … M=1, N=1, O=2 … T=7, U=6 … Z=1. The alphabet is split into two halves, each rising to 7 and falling back, producing very small totals that are useful for spotting structural symmetry.
The oldest system in common numerological use, derived from Babylonian practice and organized by sound rather than alphabet position. Values run 1–8 only; 9 is treated as sacred and never assigned. Chaldean is the standard cipher for name numerology readings and differs meaningfully from Pythagorean Full Reduction — most professional numerologists use one or the other, not both.
Each letter takes the nth prime: A=2, B=3, C=5, D=7 … Z=101. Because primes are indivisible, this cipher never produces the accidental factor patterns that ordinal systems do, which makes it a useful control when testing whether a match is meaningful or arithmetic coincidence.
Trigonal assigns the nth triangular number (n(n+1)/2), so A=1, B=3, C=6, D=10 … Z=351. Squares assigns n²: A=1, B=4, C=9 … Z=676. Fibonacci walks the Fibonacci sequence across the alphabet. All three are mathematical ciphers rather than traditional ones, valued for producing distinctive fingerprints that are hard to hit by chance.
Three related 1–26 ciphers derived from Aleister Crowley's Liber Trigrammaton and developed by later English Qabalah practitioners. Each reorders the alphabet before numbering it — ALW begins A, L, W; KFW begins K, F, W; LCH begins L, C, H. They are the standard ciphers in Thelemic and New Aeon English Qabalah work.
Four classical Hebrew methods, all supported by the calculator when you enter Hebrew characters:
The classical Greek system: α=1 … ι=10, κ=20 … ρ=100, σ=200 … ω=800, with the archaic letters digamma (6), koppa (90) and sampi (900) filling the gaps. This is the cipher behind 666 in Revelation and 888 for Ἰησοῦς.
| Letter | Ordinal | Full Red. | Rev. Ordinal | Jewish | Eng. Extended | Sumerian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| B | 2 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| C | 3 | 3 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 18 |
| D | 4 | 4 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 24 |
| E | 5 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 5 | 30 |
| F | 6 | 6 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 36 |
| G | 7 | 7 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 42 |
| H | 8 | 8 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 48 |
| I | 9 | 9 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 54 |
| J | 10 | 1 | 17 | 600 | 10 | 60 |
| K | 11 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 20 | 66 |
| L | 12 | 3 | 15 | 20 | 30 | 72 |
| M | 13 | 4 | 14 | 30 | 40 | 78 |
| N | 14 | 5 | 13 | 40 | 50 | 84 |
| O | 15 | 6 | 12 | 50 | 60 | 90 |
| P | 16 | 7 | 11 | 60 | 70 | 96 |
| Q | 17 | 8 | 10 | 70 | 80 | 102 |
| R | 18 | 9 | 9 | 80 | 90 | 108 |
| S | 19 | 1 | 8 | 90 | 100 | 114 |
| T | 20 | 2 | 7 | 100 | 200 | 120 |
| U | 21 | 3 | 6 | 200 | 300 | 126 |
| V | 22 | 4 | 5 | 700 | 400 | 132 |
| W | 23 | 5 | 4 | 900 | 500 | 138 |
| X | 24 | 6 | 3 | 300 | 600 | 144 |
| Y | 25 | 7 | 2 | 400 | 700 | 150 |
| Z | 26 | 8 | 1 | 500 | 800 | 156 |
Revelation 13:18 presents 666 explicitly as an isopsephy puzzle: "let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast." The most widely accepted scholarly reading transliterates Nero Caesar into Hebrew letters (נרון קסר), which sums to exactly 666; the Latin spelling drops a nun and gives 616, which is precisely the variant reading found in some early manuscripts. In modern English work, 666 is usually reached through Sumerian, where the ×6 multiplier puts it within range of ordinary words.
In Greek isopsephy, Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous) sums to 888 — 10+8+200+70+400+200 — a value early Christian writers read as a deliberate counterweight to 666. In Hebrew, משיח (Mashiach, Messiah) sums to 358, the same value as נחש (nachash, serpent), a correspondence the Kabbalistic tradition treats as theologically loaded rather than accidental. In English Ordinal, JESUS is 74 and in Full Reduction it is 11.
חי (chai, "life") sums to 18, which is why charitable gifts in Jewish practice are so often given in multiples of 18. It is the single most socially embedded gematria value in the world — a live tradition rather than a historical curiosity.
The Tetragrammaton יהוה sums to 26 (10+5+6+5). The Shem HaMephorash, the 72-fold name derived from three verses in Exodus 14, yields 72 three-letter names, each treated as a distinct angelic designation.
Every cipher table in this calculator is implemented from its published source and is deterministic — the same input always yields the same output, and the letter-by-letter breakdown lets you audit any total by hand. Where authorities disagree on a table (Agrippa's Latin I/J and U/V, for example), the ambiguity is documented in the cipher guide above rather than hidden.
What the arithmetic cannot tell you is whether a match means anything. With 36 ciphers and a large vocabulary, coincidental matches are mathematically guaranteed — that is a property of the number space, not evidence of design. Gematria has genuine standing as a historical exegetical method within Jewish, Greek and Hermetic traditions, and it is a rich field for study on those terms. It is not a predictive instrument, and nothing here should be used as a basis for medical, financial, legal or personal decisions. Treat the numbers as a starting point for reading, not as a conclusion.
The questions people most often ask about gematria calculators, ciphers and values.
A gematria calculator is a free online tool that converts the letters of a word, name or phrase into numbers using a defined cipher, then adds those numbers together to produce a single numeric value. This calculator runs 36 ciphers at once, including English Ordinal, Full Reduction (Pythagorean), Reverse Ordinal, Jewish Gematria, English Extended, Francis Bacon, Sumerian, Septenary, Chaldean, Hebrew Mispar Hechrachi and Greek Isopsephy.
Pick a cipher, replace every letter with its numeric value, then add the values together. In English Ordinal, A = 1 through Z = 26, so LOVE = 12 + 15 + 22 + 5 = 54. In Full Reduction every value is reduced to a single digit first, so LOVE = 3 + 6 + 4 + 5 = 18. Spaces, digits and punctuation are ignored in every standard system.
Hebrew gematria (Mispar Hechrachi) assigns values to the 22 Hebrew letters: Aleph = 1 through Tav = 400.
Jewish Gematria is an English-alphabet cipher that borrows that 1-9 / 10-90 / 100-900 structure and maps it onto A–Z.
English gematria normally means English Ordinal (A = 1, Z = 26) or English Extended (A–I = 1–9, J–R = 10–90, S–Z = 100–800).
Type your full name into the calculator at the top of this page. It returns your name's value in all 36 ciphers at once, shows a letter-by-letter breakdown so you can verify the arithmetic, and lists every other word and phrase in the database that shares the same value.
666 is described in Revelation 13:18 as the number of the beast, presented as a puzzle for readers who knew Greek isopsephy. The most widely accepted reading transliterates Nero Caesar into Hebrew letters, which sums to exactly 666 — and the Latin spelling gives 616, matching a genuine variant in early manuscripts. In modern English gematria, 666 is most often reached through the Sumerian cipher, where every ordinal value is multiplied by six.
In Greek isopsephy, Ἰησοῦς sums to 888. In Hebrew, משיח (Mashiach, "Messiah") sums to 358. In English Ordinal, JESUS = 74, and in Full Reduction it = 11. All four are heavily referenced in gematria literature.
Yes — completely. Every cipher, the letter breakdown, the matching-words database, the Hebrew and Greek keyboards and the PNG export are free. There is no signup, no membership tier and no paywalled cipher.
Yes. Enter any length of text. Spaces, numerals and punctuation are skipped automatically and only alphabetic characters contribute to the total, which is the standard convention across every gematria system.
Simple Gematria is another name for English Ordinal: A = 1, B = 2, and so on to Z = 26. It is the most common starting cipher because it needs no reduction step and is easy to verify by hand.
Start with the four primary ciphers shown at the top: English Ordinal, Full Reduction, Reverse Ordinal and Jewish Gematria. Those four cover the overwhelming majority of published gematria work. Use Hebrew Mispar Hechrachi for Hebrew scripture, Greek Isopsephy for New Testament study, and Chaldean for name numerology.
Yes. The entire cipher engine and the matching-words database are contained in the page itself, with no external requests. Once the page has loaded, every calculation runs locally in your browser — nothing you type is ever sent to a server.
Use the Hebrew Keyboard or Greek buttons above the input box. The Hebrew keyboard switches the input to right-to-left mode automatically and includes the five final (sofit) forms, which matter for Mispar Gadol. You can also paste Hebrew or Greek text directly.