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Gematria Calculator

Type a word, name, or phrase to see its value in six gematria ciphers, or compare several phrases side by side.

Mode

English, Hebrew, and Greek letters are counted. Spaces, digits, and punctuation are ignored, and capital letters score the same as lowercase.

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Result

Awaiting input

Type a word above, or pick an example, to see its value in every selected cipher.

What was counted

Nothing entered yet. Type a word above, or pick an example, and the character counts appear here.

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Matching words and phrases

Enter a phrase or number to search the corpus.

Data sources and matching method

Matches come from a reviewed, licensed corpus built from SCOWL word lists, US Census name files, GeoNames places, and the Strong's Hebrew and Greek dictionaries. Every entry keeps its source. Matching values are calculated by Calculator Answers with the same ciphers as this page.

Lookups request only the cipher and the numeric value; the phrase you typed stays in your browser and is never added to the corpus. Equal values mean the arithmetic totals are equal. They do not establish a factual, causal, theological, or mystical relationship.

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Quick Answer

Gematria assigns a number to each letter and adds them up. This calculator totals any word, name, or phrase in six ciphers - English Ordinal, Reverse Ordinal, Reduction, and Sumerian, plus standard Hebrew gematria and Greek isopsephy - shows the letter-by-letter maths, and can compare up to five phrases side by side.

Source: Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, ed. Kautzsch, tr. Cowley, §5 · Source verified August 19, 2026

Blake Boege
Written by Blake Boege · Founder, Calculator Answers

Gematria is the practice of assigning numerical values to the letters of an alphabet and summing them for a word, name, or phrase. It is documented in Hebrew tradition, where the letters doubled as numerals, and the equivalent Greek practice is called isopsephy; modern ciphers apply the same idea to the Latin alphabet. A gematria calculator performs that arithmetic: it maps each letter to its value under a chosen cipher and adds them together. This one supports four English ciphers alongside standard Hebrew gematria and Greek isopsephy, lets you choose which ciphers to display, shows every counted character and the running total, and includes a compare mode for checking several phrases against each other. A shared total means two phrases add up the same way under one cipher; it is an arithmetic result and not, by itself, evidence of a connection.

Type a word, name, or phrase and get its value in six ciphers: English Ordinal, Reverse Ordinal, Reduction, and Sumerian, plus standard Hebrew gematria and Greek isopsephy. Choose which ciphers to show, see exactly which characters were counted, and compare up to five phrases side by side.

See also: Hebrew Gematria Calculator, Greek Gematria Calculator, and English to Hebrew Transliteration.

Examples

JESUS

Ordinal 74 · Reduction 11 · Reverse 61 · Sumerian 444

TRUTH

Ordinal 87 · Reduction 24 · Reverse 48 · Sumerian 522

WISDOM

Ordinal 83 · Reduction 29 · Reverse 79 · Sumerian 498

LIGHT

Ordinal 56 · Reduction 29 · Reverse 79 · Sumerian 336

LOVE

Ordinal 54 · Reduction 18 · Reverse 54 · Sumerian 324

SHALOM

Ordinal 68 · Reduction 23 · Reverse 94 · Sumerian 408

שלום (Hebrew)

Standard Hebrew gematria 376

θεος (Greek)

Greek isopsephy 284

How it works

Formula · Total = Σ (value of each counted letter under one cipher)

A cipher is just a rule for turning letters into numbers. The calculator applies every rule you have switched on whose alphabet matches your input, then adds the values up. Letters outside a cipher's alphabet (and all spaces, digits, and punctuation) are skipped, and the totals tell you how many characters were counted and how many were not.

  • English Ordinal

    A = 1, B = 2, all the way to Z = 26. The simplest English gematria cipher and the one most calculators show first.

  • English Reverse Ordinal

    A = 26, B = 25, all the way to Z = 1. A mirror of Ordinal — the same idea reading the alphabet backwards.

  • English Reduction

    Each letter is reduced to a single digit 1–9: A = 1, B = 2, … I = 9, then J = 1, K = 2, … repeating. Common in numerology, sometimes called the Pythagorean cipher.

  • English Sumerian

    Each letter's Ordinal value × 6. A widely used variant in modern English gematria research.

  • Hebrew Standard

    Hebrew letters take traditional grouped values: 1–9 for א–ט, 10–90 for י–צ, and 100–400 for ק–ת. Final letter forms (ך, ם, ן, ף, ץ) keep the same value as their non-final counterparts. This is the standard Hebrew gematria used in Jewish literature.

  • Greek Isopsephy

    Greek letters take grouped values: 1–9 for α–θ (with digamma = 6), 10–90 for ι–ϟ (koppa), and 100–800 for ρ–ω, plus sampi = 900. Used in ancient Greek and early Christian texts.

How to compare phrases

Comparing is the quickest way to answer the question most people actually arrive with: do these two things add up to the same number? Switch the calculator to Compare Phrases and enter up to five words, names, or phrases.

  1. 1. Choose which ciphers you care about. Fewer columns make matches easier to see; the English-only shortcut is a good starting point.
  2. 2. Enter your phrases, one per row. Add or remove rows as you go.
  3. 3. Read across a row for one phrase in every cipher, or down a column for one cipher across every phrase.
  4. 4. Any value shared by two or more phrases within the same cipher is marked, so you do not have to scan the numbers yourself.

Matches are only ever reported within a single cipher. An Ordinal total of 74 and a Sumerian total of 74 are not a match; they come from different rules and comparing them says nothing.

What gets counted, and what gets ignored

Every character you type falls into one of two groups, and the calculator tells you which.

Counted

  • English letters A–Z, upper or lower case
  • Hebrew letters א–ת, including final forms
  • Greek letters α–ω, including accented forms
  • Digamma, koppa, and sampi in Greek

Ignored

  • Spaces and line breaks
  • Digits 0–9
  • Punctuation and symbols
  • Letters from alphabets this tool does not score

Case never changes a value: LIGHT and light both total 56 in Ordinal. Hebrew final letters keep their ordinary value: final mem (ם) is 40, the same as mem (מ). This is the standard convention rather than the Mispar Gadol variant that assigns 500–900 to the finals.

Mixing English, Hebrew, and Greek

Each cipher only ever reads its own alphabet, so mixed input is handled cleanly rather than rejected. Type Shalom שלום and the English ciphers score only Shalom while Hebrew gematria scores only שלום. In single-phrase mode, ciphers with nothing to read simply do not appear; in compare mode they stay as columns of dashes so every phrase lines up.

If you work only in one script, the dedicated Hebrew gematria calculator and Greek gematria calculator present a single cipher with examples written in that script.

Working it out by hand

Nothing here is hidden arithmetic. Take the word LIGHT and run it through all four English ciphers at once. Look up each letter, write down its value, add the column.

English Ordinal

L 12 + I 9 + G 7 + H 8 + T 20 = 56

English Reduction

L 3 + I 9 + G 7 + H 8 + T 2 = 29

English Reverse Ordinal

L 15 + I 18 + G 20 + H 19 + T 7 = 79

English Sumerian

L 72 + I 54 + G 42 + H 48 + T 120 = 336

One word, four numbers. Reduction folds every letter down to a single digit, so T drops from 20 to 2. Reverse reads the alphabet backwards, so T is 7 rather than 20. Sumerian is Ordinal multiplied by six throughout, which is why its total is exactly six times the Ordinal total. Type LIGHT into the calculator above and you will get these same four numbers.

Hebrew works the same way on its own alphabet. The word שלום is four letters, read right to left:

  • ש = 300, running total 300
  • ל = 30, running total 330
  • ו = 6, running total 336
  • ם = 40, running total 376

The last letter is a final mem (ם), and it counts 40, exactly as an ordinary mem would.

Edge cases, and exactly what this tool does

The same word gives different numbers in different ciphers
This is the value tables differing, not an error. T is worth 20 in Ordinal, 2 in Reduction, 7 in Reverse, and 120 in Sumerian. A total is only meaningful when you say which cipher produced it, so a number quoted with no cipher named cannot be checked.
Hebrew final letter forms
The five final forms keep their ordinary values here: final kaf 20, final mem 40, final nun 50, final pe 80, final tsadi 90. This is standard gematria. The variant that assigns them 500 to 900, Mispar Gadol, is a different system and this tool does not implement it.
Case, spaces, digits, and punctuation
Case never matters: light and LIGHT both total 56 in Ordinal. Spaces, digits, and punctuation are never scored. Type Light of the World, 7! and Ordinal counts 15 letters for a total of 182, listing the 7 skipped characters as 4 spaces, 1 digit, and 2 punctuation marks.
Letters from another alphabet
Each cipher skips what it cannot read, and says so. In Shalom שלום, Ordinal scores the six Latin letters for 68 and reports the four Hebrew letters among its skipped characters, while Hebrew scores those four for 376 and skips the rest.
An empty box, or one with nothing scorable in it
With nothing typed, the result panel reads Awaiting input rather than showing zero. Type something with no scorable letters, such as 123!, and it says so plainly instead of reporting a total of nought. A zero would be a claim about the text, and there is nothing there to make a claim about.

Looking up a number instead of a word

The third mode runs the question backwards. Choose Number lookup, enter a value and a cipher, and the calculator searches prepared word lists for entries that total that number.

What it searches is stated on screen for every result, because a lookup is only as good as the list behind it. The English lists come from SCOWL and from US Census name files; places come from GeoNames; the Hebrew and Greek entries come from Strong's dictionaries via OpenScriptures. A word missing from those lists will not appear, which is a limit of the word list and not a statement about the word.

English gematria cipher chart

Every letter under the four English ciphers. This table is generated from the same cipher definitions the calculator above uses, so the two can never disagree.

Letter values for the four English gematria ciphers.
LetterOrdinalReverse OrdinalReductionSumerian
A12616
B225212
C324318
D423424
E522530
F621636
G720742
H819848
I918954
J1017160
K1116266
L1215372
M1314478
N1413584
O1512690
P1611796
Q17108102
R1899108
S1981114
T2072120
U2163126
V2254132
W2345138
X2436144
Y2527150
Z2618156

New to gematria? Read the guide: What is gematria?, a plain-language walkthrough of the ciphers, the math, and what the numbers can and cannot tell you.

What the number is, and where reading it belongs

A total on this page is an arithmetic fact: these letters, these values, this sum. That much is checkable, and the tables above are there so you can check it rather than take it on trust.

What a total signifies is a different question, and not one arithmetic answers. Traditions that work with gematria, in Jewish exegesis and elsewhere, read significance into particular values and into matches between words, and they differ from one another about which readings carry weight and how they are properly used. Those readings belong to the traditions that hold them. This page supplies the arithmetic and leaves the reading where it lives.

One arithmetic point is worth carrying into that reading: the range of possible totals is far smaller than the number of words, so different words arriving at the same total is an ordinary consequence of the counting.

Your text stays in the page

Whatever you type is processed by this page in your browser. It is not sent to a server, not stored after you close the tab, and not visible to anyone else. There is no account and nothing to sign up for. Number lookup fetches prepared word lists in order to search them, which asks for the list, never for your text.

Sources

  • Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, ed. Kautzsch, tr. Cowley, §5 prints a numerical value for every Hebrew letter, and those are the values this calculator uses. Its table also sets each final form on the same row as its base letter under one value, which is the convention followed here.
  • The Jewish Encyclopedia, Gematria states the finals rule for the standard system in as many words: "The 5 final letters have here the same values as their respective initial forms." The same entry names the variant that counts them as hundreds, Major Value or Mispar Gadol, which this calculator does not implement.
  • The English and Greek tables carry no outside citation, because none was verified for them. They are the ciphers this tool defines, and the chart above is generated from those definitions rather than copied from a reference. Read them as this calculator's own account of what it computes.

Sources checked 19 August 2026.

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Frequently asked questions

Gematria is the practice of assigning numerical values to letters and summing them to a single number. It originated in Hebrew tradition and has been extended over the centuries to many alphabets, including Greek (where it is called isopsephy) and English, each with multiple cipher systems.

There is no single "meaning" of a gematria number. The number is simply the sum of letter values under a chosen cipher. Different traditions read different things into matching values, but mathematically a match only tells you that two phrases have the same letter-value sum.

Yes. Switch the calculator to Compare phrases and enter up to five words, names, or phrases. Every cipher you have switched on is applied to each phrase and the results appear in one table, so you can read across a row for one phrase or down a column for one cipher. Any value shared by two or more phrases in the same cipher is marked, so matches are easy to spot without scanning the numbers yourself.

Yes. The cipher toggles above the calculator turn each of the six ciphers on or off, and there are one-click shortcuts for all ciphers or the four English ciphers only. Your selection applies to the totals, the letter-by-letter breakdown, and the comparison table.

Because each cipher assigns different values to the same letters. LIGHT totals 56 in Ordinal, 29 in Reduction, 79 in Reverse Ordinal, and 336 in Sumerian. Nothing about the word changed between those four numbers; only the value table did. A total therefore only means something alongside the cipher it came from, which is why every number on this page is labelled with its cipher.

Hebrew gematria is the older practice, and the difference is historical as much as arithmetic. Hebrew letters served as numerals, so every Hebrew word already carried a value, and rabbinic literature has worked with that for roughly two thousand years. Standard Hebrew gematria assigns 1 to 9 to the first nine letters, 10 to 90 to the next nine, and 100 to 400 to the last four. Greek isopsephy is built the same way, with 1 to 9, 10 to 90, and 100 to 800, plus the obsolete numeral letters digamma (6), koppa (90), and sampi (900). The English ciphers on this page are modern systems applied to the Latin alphabet: they borrow the idea rather than the history.

Four English ciphers: Ordinal, Reverse Ordinal, Reduction (Pythagorean), and Sumerian (Ordinal × 6). Standard Hebrew gematria and Greek isopsephy complete the six. Type letters from any of those alphabets and the relevant ciphers appear in the results.

No. Only letters in the cipher's alphabet contribute to the total. Spaces, digits, and punctuation are ignored, and English case does not matter. Below the breakdown the calculator lists exactly what it skipped (how many spaces, digits, punctuation marks, and letters outside the scored alphabets), so nothing is silently dropped.

A dash means that phrase contains no letters from that cipher's alphabet. An English word has no value in standard Hebrew gematria, for example, so the Hebrew column shows a dash rather than zero. Showing zero would suggest a real total of nought, which would be misleading, and it would also make unrelated phrases appear to match at zero.

Arithmetically it means their letter values add to the same number under the same cipher, and on its own it means nothing further than that. Several Jewish and esoteric traditions do read significance into such matches, and how much weight any particular match carries is a question those traditions answer rather than one this page can settle. Worth knowing alongside them: there are far more words than there are plausible totals, so two words landing on the same number is a common outcome rather than a rare one.

At their ordinary value. Final mem (ם) counts 40, the same as mem (מ), and the same holds for final kaf, final nun, final pe, and final tsadi. That is standard Hebrew gematria. A separate system, usually called Mispar Gadol, gives the five final forms values from 500 to 900 instead. This calculator does not implement that variant, so a total taken from a text containing final letters will not match a source that uses it.

Yes. Switch to Number lookup, enter a value, and choose a cipher, and the calculator searches word lists for entries that total that number. The lists it searches are named on screen along with where each came from, and the number of results shown is capped so the page stays quick.

Type your full name into the input at the top of this page. The totals update as you type, and the letter-by-letter table shows how each character in your name contributes to the running total. To see how your name compares with another word, switch to Compare phrases and enter both.

The Sumerian cipher multiplies the standard English Ordinal value by 6, a modern cipher named in reference to the Sumerians' base-60 (sexagesimal) counting system. Under this system, A becomes 6, B becomes 12, and Z becomes 156, scaling all values by a factor of six.

Hebrew and Greek letters historically doubled as numerals, so every word in those languages naturally carries a numerical value. Some passages engage with that directly: the 'number of the beast' (666) in Revelation 13:18 is the best-known case, and it depends on Greek isopsephy. For those alphabets specifically, see the Hebrew gematria and Greek gematria calculators on this site.

Yes. It is free to use with no account, no sign-up, and no limit on calculations. Everything runs inside this page in your browser.