Gematria of Beginning
5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “beginning” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 974 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 5
- Occurrences
- 974
- Distinct values
- 5
The 5 Hebrew words rendered “beginning”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
First appearance ·Genesis 2:10בראשית ב:ירָאשִֽׁים
first, in place, time or rank (as adjective or noun)
First appearance ·Genesis 8:13בראשית ח:יגבָּֽרִאשׁוֹן
at that time or place; also as a conjunction, therefore
First appearance ·Genesis 4:26בראשית ד:כואָז
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:1בראשית א:אבְּרֵאשִׁית
a beginning
First appearance ·Ezekiel 36:11יחזקאל לו:יאמֵרִאשֹׁתֵיכֶם
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Quick answers
What is the gematria of beginning?
The Tanakh renders “beginning” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ראש = 501, ראשון = 557, אז = 8, and 2 more.
How do you say beginning in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “beginning”; the most frequent are ראש (rôʼsh), 599 times; ראשון (riʼshôwn), 182 times; אז (ʼâz), 141 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.