Gematria of Friend
7 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “friend” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 1,308 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
- 7
- Occurrences
- 1,308
- Distinct values
- 7
The 7 Hebrew words rendered “friend”
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 heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
First appearance ·Genesis 6:5בראשית ו:הלִבּוֹ
safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
First appearance ·Genesis 15:15בראשית טו:טובְּשָׁלוֹם
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
First appearance ·Genesis 22:2בראשית כב:באָהַבְתָּ
an associate (more or less close)
First appearance ·Genesis 11:3בראשית יא:גרֵעֵהוּ
familiar; a friend, also gentle; hence, a bullock (as being tame; applied, although masculine, to a cow); and so, a chieftain (as notable, like neat cattle)
First appearance ·Genesis 36:15בראשית לו:טואַלּוּפֵי
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of friend?
The Tanakh renders “friend” with 7 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: לב = 32, שלום = 376, אהב = 8, and 4 more.
How do you say friend in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 7 Hebrew words for “friend”; the most frequent are לב (lêb), 595 times; שלום (shâlôwm), 237 times; אהב (ʼâhab), 209 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.