Torah Codes
Equidistant letter sequences across the twenty-four books — the Torah, the whole Tanakh, one book or a range of chapters — with every letter linked to its verse and what chance alone would produce shown beside every count.
Search the letters themselves
Type a Hebrew word and the laboratory finds every place its letters stand at an equal distance apart — in the Torah, the whole Tanakh, one book or a range of chapters — and shows what chance alone would give beside every count.
Start with a classic, checked on the Leningrad text
How this works
What chance would give
For every skip, a term of L letters can start at (letters in the scope) − (L − 1) × skip places; multiply that by the product of each of its letters' frequencies in the scope, add it up over every skip and direction searched, and you have the number of sequences chance alone would be expected to produce.
The text we search
We search the Westminster Leningrad Codex — the oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, copied about 1008 — as the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible publishes it: the consonants as written (the ketiv), 304,850 letters in the Torah by our count and 1,197,042 in the whole Tanakh. The figure most commonly cited for the Torah is 304,805; manuscripts and printed editions differ by a few letters in full and defective spellings, and we call neither count the correct one.
The order of results
Results are listed in canonical order — by the position of each sequence's first letter, from Bereshit forward — the order every list on this site keeps; sorting by skip or by compactness is your choice.
Learn more
A skip, a sequence, a matrix — and how the chance figure is computed.
From the scribes who counted letters to the 1994 and 1999 papers in Statistical Science.
The classic observations, each checked on the Leningrad text with its exact start and skip.
Plain answers: finals, ketiv and qere, backward skips, control runs, what is free.
This laboratory measures and claims nothing: it finds the sequences, shows where every letter stands, and prints what chance alone would produce beside every count.