Gematria of Life
5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “life” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 3,690 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
- 3,690
- Distinct values
- 4
The 5 Hebrew words rendered “life”
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.
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:5בראשית א:היוֹם
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:20בראשית א:כנֶפֶשׁ
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
First appearance ·Genesis 1:20בראשית א:כחַיָּה
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
First appearance ·Genesis 2:23בראשית ב:כגעֶצֶם
alive; also (as noun in plural) life
First appearance ·Daniel 2:30דניאל ב:לחַיַּיָּא
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of life?
The Tanakh renders “life” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: יום = 56, נפש = 430, חי = 18, and 1 more.
How do you say life in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “life”; the most frequent are יום (yôwm), 2,303 times; נפש (nephesh), 754 times; חי (chay), 507 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.