Gematria of Nation
5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “nation” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 2,476 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
- 2,476
- Distinct values
- 4
The 5 Hebrew words rendered “nation”
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 people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
First appearance ·Genesis 11:6בראשית יא:ועַם
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
First appearance ·Genesis 10:5בראשית י:ההַגּוֹיִם
{a collection, i.e. community of persons}
First appearance ·Daniel 3:4דניאל ג:דאֻמַּיָּא
a collection, i.e. community of persons
First appearance ·Genesis 25:16בראשית כה:טזלְאֻמֹּתָֽם
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of nation?
The Tanakh renders “nation” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: עם = 110, גוי = 19, לאם = 71, and 2 more.
How do you say nation in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “nation”; the most frequent are עם (ʻam), 1,868 times; גוי (gôwy), 561 times; לאם (lᵉʼôm), 36 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.