Gematria methods

Mispar Perati מספר פרטי

Mispar perati, the “individual” count, squares each letter's standard value and adds the squares: alef is 1, yod is 100, and tav is 160,000. The final forms count as their base letters.

Alef
1
Tav
160,000
Final mem
1,600
All 22 letters
328,785

The letter table

Each letter’s value under Perati, alef to tav, read right to left. Under each value, the square it comes from.

  1. א11²
  2. ב42²
  3. ג93²
  4. ד164²
  5. ה255²
  6. ו366²
  7. ז497²
  8. ח648²
  9. ט819²
  10. י10010²
  11. כ40020²
  12. ל90030²
  13. מ1,60040²
  14. נ2,50050²
  15. ס3,60060²
  16. ע4,90070²
  17. פ6,40080²
  18. צ8,10090²
  19. ק10,000100²
  20. ר40,000200²
  21. ש90,000300²
  22. ת160,000400²

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

Three worked examples

Reading results under Perati

A search under Perati lists every word, every run of adjacent words within a verse, and every whole verse of the Tanakh whose Perati value equals your number — in canonical order, from Bereshit 1:1 forward, never ranked. The values grow quickly, so a number here is usually carried by few texts.

Open the calculator under Perati →

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.