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Gematria of Book

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “book” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 1,633 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
3
Occurrences
1,633
Distinct values
2

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “book”

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.

דָּבָרdâbâr×1,442 in the TanakhH1697

a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause

Standard 206 →Gadol 206Katan 8Siduri (ordinal) 26Atbash 403Perati 40,020Milui 1,356

First appearance ·Genesis 11:1בראשית יא:אוּדְבָרִים

See all 798 occurrences of the spelling דבר →

סֵפֶרçêpher×186 in the TanakhH5612

properly, writing (the art or a document); by implication, a book

Standard 340 →Gadol 340Katan 16Siduri (ordinal) 52Atbash 17Perati 50,000Milui 711

First appearance ·Genesis 5:1בראשית ה:אסֵפֶר

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סְפַרçᵉphar×5 in the TanakhH5609

a book

Standard 340 →Gadol 340Katan 16Siduri (ordinal) 52Atbash 17Perati 50,000Milui 711

First appearance ·Daniel 7:10דניאל ז:יוְסִפְרִין

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What is the gematria of book?

The Tanakh renders “book” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: דבר = 206 and ספר = 340.

How do you say book in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “book”; the most frequent are דבר (dâbâr), 1,442 times; ספר (çêpher), 191 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.