Gematria of War
9 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “war” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 1,240 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
- 9
- Occurrences
- 1,240
- Distinct values
- 6
The 9 Hebrew words rendered “war”
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 mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
First appearance ·Genesis 2:1בראשית ב:אצְבָאָֽם
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
First appearance ·Genesis 14:2בראשית יד:במִלְחָמָה
probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength
First appearance ·Genesis 34:29בראשית לד:כטחֵילָם
to feed on; figuratively, to consume; by implication, to battle (as destruction)
First appearance ·Exodus 1:10שמות א:יוְנִלְחַם
to mass (an army or servants)
First appearance ·Exodus 38:8שמות לח:חהַצֹּבְאֹת
hostile encounter
First appearance ·2 Samuel 17:11שמואל ב יז:יאבַּקְרָֽב
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of war?
The Tanakh renders “war” with 9 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: צבא = 93, מלחמה = 123, חיל = 48, and 5 more.
How do you say war in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 9 Hebrew words for “war”; the most frequent are צבא (tsâbâʼ), 499 times; מלחמה (milchâmâh), 319 times; חיל (chayil), 233 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.