Gematria of Sun
5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “sun” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 266 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
- 266
- Distinct values
- 4
The 5 Hebrew words rendered “sun”
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.
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement
First appearance ·Genesis 15:12בראשית טו:יבהַשֶּׁמֶשׁ
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:3בראשית א:גאוֹר
heat; by implication, the sun
First appearance ·Isaiah 24:23ישעיהו כד:כגהַֽחַמָּה
the itch; the sun
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 28:27דברים כח:כזוּבֶחָרֶס
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of sun?
The Tanakh renders “sun” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: שמש = 640, אור = 207, חמה = 53, and 1 more.
How do you say sun in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “sun”; the most frequent are שמש (shemesh), 135 times; אור (ʼôwr), 121 times; חמה (chammâh), 6 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.