Gematria methods

Mispar Siduri מספר סידורי

Mispar siduri, the ordinal count, values each letter by its place in the alphabet: alef 1, bet 2, and so on to tav 22. The final forms count as their base letters, so a word's value is the sum of its letters' positions.

Alef
1
Tav
22
Final mem
13
All 22 letters
253

The letter table

Each letter’s value under Siduri (ordinal), alef to tav, read right to left.

  1. א1Alef
  2. ב2Bet
  3. ג3Gimel
  4. ד4Dalet
  5. ה5He
  6. ו6Vav
  7. ז7Zayin
  8. ח8Chet
  9. ט9Tet
  10. י10Yod
  11. כ11Kaf
  12. ל12Lamed
  13. מ13Mem
  14. נ14Nun
  15. ס15Samech
  16. ע16Ayin
  17. פ17Pe
  18. צ18Tzadi
  19. ק19Kuf
  20. ר20Resh
  21. ש21Shin
  22. ת22Tav

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

Three worked examples

Reading results under Siduri (ordinal)

A search under Siduri lists every word, every run of adjacent words within a verse, and every whole verse of the Tanakh whose Siduri value equals your number — in canonical order, from Bereshit 1:1 forward, never ranked.

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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.