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Gematria of Iron

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “iron” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 97 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
97
Distinct values
3

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “iron”

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.

בַּרְזֶלbarzel×76 in the TanakhH1270

iron (as cutting); by extension, an iron implement

Standard 239 →Gadol 239Katan 14Siduri (ordinal) 41Atbash 393Perati 40,953Milui 1,063

First appearance ·Genesis 4:22בראשית ד:כבוּבַרְזֶל

See all 44 occurrences of the spelling ברזל →

פַּרְזֶלparzel×20 in the TanakhH6523

iron

Standard 317 →Gadol 317Katan 20Siduri (ordinal) 56Atbash 99Perati 47,349Milui 732

First appearance ·Daniel 2:33דניאל ב:לגפַרְזֶל

See all 8 occurrences of the spelling פרזל →

יִרְאוֹןYirʼôwn×1 in the TanakhH3375

Jiron, a place in Palestine

Standard 267 →Gadol 917Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 51Atbash 532Perati 42,637Milui 760

First appearance ·Joshua 19:38יהושע יט:לחוְיִרְאוֹן

See the one occurrence of the spelling יראון →

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What is the gematria of iron?

The Tanakh renders “iron” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ברזל = 239, פרזל = 317 and יראון = 267.

How do you say iron in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “iron”; the most frequent are ברזל (barzel), 76 times; פרזל (parzel), 20 times; יראון (Yirʼôwn), 1 time. 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.