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Gematria of Moon

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “moon” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 42 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
42
Distinct values
2

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “moon”

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.

יָרֵחַyârêach×26 in the TanakhH3394

the moon

Standard 218 →Gadol 218Katan 11Siduri (ordinal) 38Atbash 103Perati 40,164Milui 948

First appearance ·Genesis 37:9בראשית לז:טוְהַיָּרֵחַ

See all 12 occurrences of the spelling ירח →

יֶרַחyerach×13 in the TanakhH3391

a lunation, i.e. month

Standard 218 →Gadol 218Katan 11Siduri (ordinal) 38Atbash 103Perati 40,164Milui 948

First appearance ·Exodus 2:2שמות ב:ביְרָחִֽים

See all 12 occurrences of the spelling ירח →

לְבָנָהlᵉbânâh×3 in the TanakhH3842

properly, (the) white, i.e. the moon

Standard 87 →Gadol 87Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 33Atbash 419Perati 3,429Milui 598

First appearance ·Isaiah 24:23ישעיהו כד:כגהַלְּבָנָה

See all 27 occurrences of the spelling לבנה →

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What is the gematria of moon?

The Tanakh renders “moon” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ירח = 218 and לבנה = 87.

How do you say moon in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “moon”; the most frequent are ירח (yârêach), 39 times; לבנה (lᵉbânâh), 3 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.