Gematria of Heaven
6 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “heaven” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 552 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
- 6
- Occurrences
- 552
- Distinct values
- 6
The 6 Hebrew words rendered “heaven”
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 sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:1בראשית א:אהַשָּׁמַיִם
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
First appearance ·Numbers 22:1במדבר כב:אבְּעַֽרְבוֹת
{the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)}
First appearance ·Jeremiah 10:11ירמיהו י:יאשְׁמַיָּא
a powder (as beaten small); by analogy, a thin vapor; by extension, the firmament
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 33:26דברים לג:כושְׁחָקִֽים
a wheel; by analogy, a whirlwind; also dust (as whirled)
First appearance ·Isaiah 5:28ישעיהו ה:כחוְגַלְגִּלָּיו
the sky (as dropping at the horizon)
First appearance ·Isaiah 5:30ישעיהו ה:לבַּעֲרִיפֶֽיהָ
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of heaven?
The Tanakh renders “heaven” with 6 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: שמים = 390, ערבה = 277, שמין = 400, and 3 more.
How do you say heaven in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 6 Hebrew words for “heaven”; the most frequent are שמים (shâmayim), 421 times; ערבה (ʻărâbâh), 60 times; שמין (shâmayin), 38 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.