Gematria of Light
22 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “light” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 2,150 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
- 22
- Occurrences
- 2,150
- Distinct values
- 16
The 22 Hebrew words rendered “light”
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.
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
First appearance ·Genesis 2:6בראשית ב:ויַֽעֲלֶה
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
First appearance ·Genesis 2:21בראשית ב:כאוַיַּפֵּל
to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications)
First appearance ·Genesis 11:5בראשית יא:הוַיֵּרֶד
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:3בראשית א:גאוֹר
to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)
First appearance ·Genesis 8:8בראשית ח:חהֲקַלּוּ
a lamp (i.e. the burner) or light (literally or figuratively)
First appearance ·Exodus 25:37שמות כה:לזנֵרֹתֶיהָ
to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity
First appearance ·Genesis 23:8בראשית כג:חוּפִגְעוּ
to be (causative, make) luminous (literally and metaphorically)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:15בראשית א:טולְהָאִיר
dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial)
First appearance ·Genesis 19:15בראשית יט:טוהַשַּׁחַר
properly, a luminous body or luminary, i.e. (abstractly) light (as an element); figuratively, brightness, i.e.cheerfulness; specifically, a chandelier
First appearance ·Genesis 1:14בראשית א:ידמְאֹרֹת
brilliancy (literally or figuratively)
First appearance ·2 Samuel 22:13שמואל ב כב:יגמִנֹּגַהּ
light; (by implication) rapid (also adverbial)
First appearance ·2 Samuel 2:18שמואל ב ב:יחקַל
flame; hence (in the plural) the East (as being the region of light)
First appearance ·Isaiah 24:15ישעיהו כד:טובָּאֻרִים
luminousness, i.e. (figuratively) prosperity; also a plant (as being bright)
First appearance ·2 Kings 4:39מלכים ב ד:לטאֹרֹת
illumination, i.e. (figuratively) wisdom
First appearance ·Daniel 2:22דניאל ב:כבונהירא
to alight; (transitive) to cause to descend, i.e. drive down
First appearance ·Joshua 15:18יהושע טו:יחוַתִּצְנַח
to bubble up or froth (as boiling water), i.e. (figuratively) to be unimportant
First appearance ·Judges 9:4שופטים ט:דוּפֹחֲזִים
an embrasure or opening with bevelled jam
First appearance ·1 Kings 6:4מלכים א ו:דשְׁקֻפִים
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of light?
The Tanakh renders “light” with 22 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: עלה = 105, נפל = 160, ירד = 214, and 19 more.
How do you say light in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 22 Hebrew words for “light”; the most frequent are עלה (ʻâlâh), 889 times; נפל (nâphal), 434 times; ירד (yârad), 379 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.