Gematria of World
5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “world” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 2,984 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
- 2,984
- Distinct values
- 4
The 5 Hebrew words rendered “world”
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 earth (at large, or partitively a land)
First appearance ·Genesis 1:1בראשית א:אהָאָֽרֶץ
properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
First appearance ·Genesis 3:22בראשית ג:כבלְעֹלָֽם
the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension, the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a particular land, as Babylonia, Palestine
First appearance ·1 Samuel 2:8שמואל א ב:חתֵּבֵֽל
life (as a fleeting portion of time); hence, the world (as transient)
First appearance ·Psalms 17:14תהלים יז:ידמֵחֶלֶד
rest, i.e. the state of the dead
First appearance ·Isaiah 38:11ישעיהו לח:יאחָֽדֶל
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of world?
The Tanakh renders “world” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: ארץ = 291, עולם = 146, תבל = 432, and 2 more.
How do you say world in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “world”; the most frequent are ארץ (ʼerets), 2,504 times; עולם (ʻôwlâm), 438 times; תבל (têbêl), 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.