Mispar Katan מספר קטן

Mispar katan, the “small” count, reduces each letter's standard value to a single digit by dropping its zeros: alef, yod and kuf are all 1, and shin (300) is 3. A word's value is the sum of those digits, and the final forms count as their base letters.

Alef: 1
Tav: 4
Final mem: 4
All 22 letters: 100

The letter table

Each letter’s value under Katan, alef to tav, read right to left.

The five final forms, ך ם ן ף ץ, take their base letter's value under Katan; only Gadol gives them values of their own.

Three worked examples

שלום= 16

In the standard count, שלום is 376.

ש3from 300
ל3from 30
ו6
ם4from 40

3 + 3 + 6 + 4 = 16

Gematria 376, its standard value →Every match for 16 under Katan →

בראשית= 13

In the standard count, בראשית is 913.

ב2
ר2from 200
א1
ש3from 300
י1from 10
ת4from 400

2 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 4 = 13

Gematria 913, its standard value →Every match for 13 under Katan →

יהוה= 17

In the standard count, יהוה is 26.

י1from 10
ה5
ו6
ה5

1 + 5 + 6 + 5 = 17

Gematria 26, its standard value →Every match for 17 under Katan →

Reading results under Katan

A search under Katan lists every word, every run of adjacent words within a verse, and every whole verse of the Tanakh whose Katan value equals your number — in canonical order, from Bereshit 1:1 forward, never ranked. The values are small, so a single number gathers far more matches than it does in Standard.

Open the calculator under Katan →

Every value on this page was computed by the engine that indexes the Tanakh — the same arithmetic every search runs. None of it is typed by hand.