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    Gematria (/ɡəˈmeɪtriə/; Hebrew: גמטריא or gimatria גימטריה, plural גמטראות or גימטריות, gimatriot) is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a...
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    Numerology (redirect from English gematria)
    "numerology" is not recorded in English before c. 1907. The practice of gematria, assigning numerical values to words and names and imputing those values...
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    are usually interpreted by applying one of three methods:: 718  Using gematria to find the numbers that equate to the names of world leaders, to check...
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  • is used in loanwords and foreign names to denote [ʒ] as in vision. In gematria, zayin represents the number seven, and when used at the beginning of Hebrew...
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  • explaining the meaning of the letter 'H'. Crowley explains in his essay "Gematria" that he changed the magick word to include 'H' because of qabalistic methods...
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  • Eliphas Levi before being popularized in contemporary esoteric magic. Gematria was extrapolated from The Equinox vol. 1, no.5 where it was originally...
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  • man's body The gematria of Shaddai, one of God's names Number of men Abraham took to battle against the 4 kings (Genesis 14:14); also gematria of Eliezer...
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  • Pythagoras of Samos, practiced isopsephy, the Greek predecessor of Hebrew gematria. Pythagoras was a contemporary of the philosophers Anaximander, Anaximenes...
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  • reused to serve as thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands. Gematria (Jewish numerology) uses these transformations extensively. In Israel today...
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    Basmala (section Gematria)
    The Basmala (Arabic: بَسْمَلَة, basmalah; also known by its opening words Bi-smi llāh; بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ, "In the name of God"), or Tasmiyyah (Arabic: تَسْمِيَّة)...
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  • last letter in the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system/isopsephy (gematria), it has a value of 800. The word literally means "great O" (ō mega, mega...
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  • contexts and even then often only by careful readers of the scriptures. In gematria, He symbolizes the number five, and when used at the beginning of Hebrew...
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    youthful Nahshon is shown wearing a red robe and reading a book. Gematria: In Hebrew gematria the numeric value of Nachshon is 414. The same as Kaddish (414)...
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  • changes from מ‎ to ם‎. In gematria, Mem represents the number 40 in both the Standard and Mispar Gadol Methods of Gematria; However, (mem sofit) final...
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    such as 7, 10, 12, and 40 were known for recurring in symbolic contexts. Gematria is form of cipher used to generate a numerical equivalent for a Hebrew...
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  • pronunciation. [tˤ] is also probably the pronunciation in Biblical Hebrew. In gematria, Tet represents the number nine. When followed by an apostrophe, it means...
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  • from which the English calculate is derived. Isopsephy is related to gematria: the same practice using the Hebrew alphabet. It is also related to the...
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  • have raised the possibility of gematria on various occasions in the Hebrew Bible. There are at least two cases of gematria appearing in the New Testament...
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  • numerals in Arabic are similar to the earlier alphanumeric codes of Hebrew gematria and Greek isopsephy. The Abjad order of the Arabic alphabet has two slightly...
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    A tetractys of the letters of the Tetragrammaton adds up to 72 by gematria....
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  • metal genre towards a groove metal style. Songs such as the opening track "Gematria (The Killing Name)" and the title track espouse the band's more brutal...
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  • diacritics, the letter without the dot may represent either phoneme. Bet in gematria represents the number 2. As a prefix, the letter bet may function as a...
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  • Aiwass (section Gematria)
    that he was, labored to discover Aiwass's number within the system of gematria. Initially he believed that it was 78: "I had decided on AIVAS = 78, the...
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  • Ithiel (section In Gematria)
    heaven" and of being the weight of judgment for the men of God. In Hebrew Gematria, Ithiel is 452 which has an exact correspondence to the Greek words meizonos...
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  • Arabic letter can be assigned a specific numerical value, also called gematria: Abdullah Arik, a Quranistic author, uses this method in his book Beyond...
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  • commanded us the Torah..."). The Talmud notes that the Hebrew numerical value (gematria) of the word Torah is 611 (ת‎ = 400, ו‎ = 6, ר‎ = 200, ה‎ = 5). Combining...
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    Barnabas also employs another technique of ancient Jewish exegesis, that of gematria, the ascription of religious significance to the numerical value of letters...
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    the beast in the Book of Revelation, adding up to 666, is derived from a gematria of the name of Nero Caesar, indicating that Nero was viewed as an exceptionally...
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    Bar Kochba is a play on the Hebrew Shema with the value equating to the gematria value of 666. The pun on his patronymic equates to the variant reading...
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    When using standard mispar hechrechi[verification needed] encoding of gematria, adding the corresponding values yields 666, as shown: The variant number...
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