Gematria of Water
6 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “water” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 663 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
- 6
- Occurrences
- 663
- Distinct values
- 6
The 6 Hebrew words rendered “water”
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.
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
First appearance ·Genesis 1:2בראשית א:בהַמָּֽיִם
to quaff, i.e. (causatively) to irrigate or furnish apotion to
First appearance ·Genesis 2:6בראשית ב:ווְהִשְׁקָה
to slake the thirst (occasionally of other appetites)
First appearance ·Isaiah 16:9ישעיהו טז:טאֲרַיָּוֶךְ
to run after or over, i.e. overflow
First appearance ·Joel 2:24יואל ב:כדוְהֵשִׁיקוּ
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of water?
The Tanakh renders “water” with 6 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: מים = 90, שקה = 405, רוה = 211, and 3 more.
How do you say water in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 6 Hebrew words for “water”; the most frequent are מים (mayim), 579 times; שקה (shâqâh), 62 times; רוה (râvâh), 14 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.