Syria סוריה

Syria — in Hebrew סוריה — country in western Asia. Counted across every skip (2–76,212), the Torah holds 7,567 sequences of Syria, the shortest at skip 3 (Genesis 18:20); chance alone would give about 7,924.

Found in the Torah · every skip: 7,567
Chance alone · every skip: 7,924
P (≥ found) · every skip: 1.00
Shortest skip: 3
Longest skip found: 75,337

Every skip the Torah allows for a spelling of 5 letters (2–76,212), both directions, final letters folded, the written text.
At the laboratory's default range, skips 2–5,000: 1,002 found · chance alone about 1,005 (probability of 1,002 or more by chance alone: 0.55).

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In the Torah

Across every skip (2–76,212), סוריה appears 7,567 times in the Torah; chance alone would give about 7,924, so the count is in line with chance.

The shortest skip at which סוריה appears in the Torah is 3 — at Genesis 18:20, reading forward.

The longest skip at which סוריה was found in the Torah is 75,337 — at Deuteronomy 34:1, reading backward; a spelling of 5 letters fits the Torah at skips up to 76,212.

By book (where the first letter stands) · every skip

Genesis 2,077
Exodus 1,469
Leviticus 985
Numbers 1,899
Deuteronomy 1,137

Examples across the range

5 of the 7,567 sequences, chosen across the range of skips — the shortest, mid-range skips and the longest found — each with its verse and its matrix.

Under each example, every letter of the sequence is listed with the verse it stands in. A letter falls in its verse by position alone — one letter every so many letters of the text — so the verses are where the letters stand, not part of the sequence's meaning.

shortest skipGenesis 18:20בראשית יח:כskip 3, forward
Letter by letter
1. ס ו ר י הGenesis 18:20
  וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה זַעֲקַת סְדֹם וַעֲמֹרָה כִּי־רָבָּה וְחַטָּאתָם כִּי כָבְדָה מְאֹֽד
  And the LORD said: ‘Verily, the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and, verily, their sin is exceeding grievous.
skip 3, width 3 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.
letter 21,428 of the TorahOpen at skip 3 in the laboratory →
a short skipDeuteronomy 1:19דברים א:יטskip 4, backward
1. סDeuteronomy 1:19
  וַנִּסַּע מֵחֹרֵב וַנֵּלֶךְ אֵת כָּל־הַמִּדְבָּר …
  And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and dreadful wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
1. ו ר י הDeuteronomy 1:18
  וָאֲצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם בָּעֵת הַהִוא אֵת כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר תַּעֲשֽׂוּן
  And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
skip 4, width 4 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads up one column.
letter 250,972 of the TorahOpen at skip 4 in the laboratory →
a mid-range skipLeviticus 11:3ויקרא יא:גskip 101, backward
1. סLeviticus 11:3
  כֹּל מַפְרֶסֶת פַּרְסָה וְשֹׁסַעַת שֶׁסַע פְּרָסֹת מַעֲלַת גֵּרָה בַּבְּהֵמָה אֹתָהּ תֹּאכֵֽלוּ
  Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
1. וLeviticus 10:20
  וַיִּשְׁמַע מֹשֶׁה וַיִּיטַב בְּעֵינָֽיו
  And when Moses heard that, it was well-pleasing in his sight.
2. רLeviticus 10:19
  וַיְדַבֵּר אַהֲרֹן אֶל־מֹשֶׁה הֵן הַיּוֹם הִקְרִיבוּ …
  And Aaron spoke unto Moses: ‘Behold, this day have they offered their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before the LORD, and there have befallen me such things as these; and if I had eaten the sin-offering to-day, would it have been well-pleasing in the sight of the LORD?
3. יLeviticus 10:17
  … הַֽחַטָּאת בִּמְקוֹם הַקֹּדֶשׁ כִּי קֹדֶשׁ קָֽדָשִׁים הִוא וְאֹתָהּ נָתַן לָכֶם לָשֵׂאת …
  ’Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin-offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and He hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?
4. הLeviticus 10:15
  … אִתְּךָ לְחָק־עוֹלָם כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה יְהוָֽה
  The thigh of heaving and the breast of waving shall they bring with the offerings of the fat made by fire, to wave it for a wave-offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy sons’with thee, as a due for ever; as the LORD hath commanded.’
skip 101, width 101 — one row is 101 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column.
letter 155,510 of the TorahOpen at skip 101 in the laboratory →
a mid-range skipNumbers 21:20במדבר כא:כskip 1,023, forward
1. סNumbers 21:20
  וּמִבָּמוֹת הַגַּיְא אֲשֶׁר בִּשְׂדֵה מוֹאָב רֹאשׁ הַפִּסְגָּה וְנִשְׁקָפָה עַל־פְּנֵי הַיְשִׁימֹֽן
  and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
1. וNumbers 22:4
  … הַשָּׂדֶה וּבָלָק בֶּן־צִפּוֹר מֶלֶךְ לְמוֹאָב בָּעֵת הַהִֽוא
  And Moab said unto the elders of Midian: ‘Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field.’—And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.—
2. רNumbers 22:22
  … יְהוָה בַּדֶּרֶךְ לְשָׂטָן לוֹ וְהוּא רֹכֵב עַל־אֲתֹנוֹ וּשְׁנֵי נְעָרָיו עִמּֽוֹ …
  And God’s anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of the LORD placed himself in the way for an adversary against him.—Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.—
3. יNumbers 22:38
  … דַּבֵּר מְאוּמָה הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר יָשִׂים אֱלֹהִים בְּפִי אֹתוֹ אֲדַבֵּֽר
  And Balaam said unto Balak: ‘Lo, I am come unto thee; have I now any power at all to speak any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.’
4. הNumbers 23:19
  לֹא אִישׁ אֵל וִֽיכַזֵּב וּבֶן־אָדָם וְיִתְנֶחָם הַהוּא אָמַר וְלֹא יַעֲשֶׂה וְדִבֶּר וְלֹא יְקִימֶֽנָּה
  God is not a man, that He should lie; Neither the son of man, that He should repent: When He hath said, will He not do it? Or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good?
skip 1,023, width 1,023 — one row is 1,023 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads down the middle column.
letter 224,429 of the TorahOpen at skip 1,023 in the laboratory →
the longest skip foundDeuteronomy 34:1דברים לד:אskip 75,337, backward
1. סDeuteronomy 34:1
  … מוֹאָב אֶל־הַר נְבוֹ רֹאשׁ הַפִּסְגָּה אֲשֶׁר עַל־פְּנֵי יְרֵחוֹ וַיַּרְאֵהוּ …
  And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, even Gilead as far as Dan;
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
1. וNumbers 23:27
  … אַחֵר אוּלַי יִישַׁר בְּעֵינֵי הָאֱלֹהִים וְקַבֹּתוֹ לִי מִשָּֽׁם
  And Balak said unto Balaam: ‘Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.’
2. רLeviticus 9:12
  וַיִּשְׁחַט אֶת־הָעֹלָה וַיַּמְצִאוּ בְּנֵי אַהֲרֹן אֵלָיו אֶת־הַדָּם וַיִּזְרְקֵהוּ עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּחַ סָבִֽיב
  And he slew the burnt-offering; and Aaron’s sons delivered unto him the blood, and he dashed it against the altar round about.
3. יExodus 1:6
  וַיָּמָת יוֹסֵף וְכָל־אֶחָיו וְכֹל הַדּוֹר הַהֽוּא
  And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
4. הGenesis 2:25
  וַיִּֽהְיוּ שְׁנֵיהֶם עֲרוּמִּים הָֽאָדָם וְאִשְׁתּוֹ וְלֹא יִתְבֹּשָֽׁשׁוּ
  And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
skip 75,337, width 75,337 — one row is 75,337 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column.
letter 304,229 of the TorahOpen at skip 75,337 in the laboratory →

Across the Tanakh

Across every skip (2–299,260), סוריה appears 138,869 times in the whole Tanakh — 0.6% more than the 137,996 chance alone would give; the probability of 138,869 or more by chance alone is 0.0095.

At the laboratory's default range, skips 2–5,000: 4,564 found · chance alone about 4,572 (probability of 4,564 or more by chance alone: 0.55).

By book (where the first letter stands) · every skip

Genesis 7,631
Exodus 6,220
Leviticus 4,196
Numbers 8,687
Deuteronomy 5,108
Joshua 2,980
Judges 4,924
Samuel 6,743
Kings 12,108
Isaiah 9,942
Jeremiah 8,243
Ezekiel 7,711
The Twelve 7,473
Psalms 14,101
Proverbs 5,381
Job 4,100
Song of Songs 658
Ruth 166
Lamentations 660
Ecclesiastes 1,852
Esther 2,649
Daniel 2,823
Ezra–Nehemiah 4,600
Chronicles 9,913

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Outside the Torah

shortest skip outside the TorahJudges 15:12שופטים טו:יבskip 3, backward
1. ס ו ר יJudges 15:12
  וַיֹּאמְרוּ לוֹ לֶאֱסָרְךָ יָרַדְנוּ לְתִתְּךָ בְּיַד־פְּלִשְׁתִּים וַיֹּאמֶר …
  And they said unto him: ‘We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines.’ And Samson said unto them: ‘Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.’
Letter by letter: the other 1 letter
1. הJudges 15:11
  … כַּאֲשֶׁר עָשׂוּ לִי כֵּן עָשִׂיתִי לָהֶֽם
  Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson: ‘Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done unto us?’ And he said unto them: ‘As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.’
skip 3, width 3 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads up one column.
letter 371,340 of the TanakhOpen at skip 3 in the laboratory →
a mid-range skipEzekiel 26:10יחזקאל כו:יskip 100, backward
1. סEzekiel 26:10
  מִשִּׁפְעַת סוּסָיו יְכַסֵּךְ אֲבָקָם מִקּוֹל פָּרַשׁ וְגַלְגַּל וָרֶכֶב …
  By reason of the abundance of his horses Their dust shall cover thee; At the noise of the horsemen, And of the wheels, and of the chariots, Thy walls shall shake, When he shall enter into thy gates, As men enter into a city Wherein is made a breach.
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
1. וEzekiel 26:8
  בְּנוֹתַיִךְ בַּשָּׂדֶה בַּחֶרֶב יַהֲרֹג וְנָתַן עָלַיִךְ דָּיֵק וְשָׁפַךְ עָלַיִךְ סֹֽלְלָה וְהֵקִים עָלַיִךְ צִנָּֽה
  He shall slay with the sword Thy daughters in the field; And he shall make forts against thee, And cast up a mound against thee, And set up bucklers against thee.
2. רEzekiel 26:6
  וּבְנוֹתֶיהָ אֲשֶׁר בַּשָּׂדֶה בַּחֶרֶב תֵּהָרַגְנָה וְיָדְעוּ כִּי־אֲנִי יְהוָֽה
  And her daughters that are in the field Shall be slain with the sword; And they shall know that I am the LORD.
3. יEzekiel 26:4
  וְשִׁחֲתוּ חֹמוֹת צֹר וְהָֽרְסוּ מִגְדָּלֶיהָ וְסִֽחֵיתִי עֲפָרָהּ מִמֶּנָּה וְנָתַתִּי אוֹתָהּ לִצְחִיחַ סָֽלַע
  And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, And break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, And make her a bare rock.
4. הEzekiel 26:2
  … יְרוּשָׁלִַם הֶאָח נִשְׁבְּרָה דַּלְתוֹת הָעַמִּים נָסֵבָּה אֵלָי אִמָּלְאָה הָחֳרָֽבָה
  ’Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem: Aha, she is broken that was the gate of the peoples; She is turned unto me; I shall be filled with her that is laid waste;
skip 100, width 100 — one row is 100 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column.
letter 764,405 of the TanakhOpen at skip 100 in the laboratory →
longest skip outside the Torah2 Chronicles 36:23דברי הימים ב לו:כגskip 298,185, backward
1. ס2 Chronicles 36:23
  כֹּה־אָמַר כּוֹרֶשׁ מֶלֶךְ פָּרַס כָּל־מַמְלְכוֹת הָאָרֶץ נָתַן לִי …
  ’Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD, the God of heaven, given me; and He hath charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all His people—the LORD his God be with him—let him go up.’
Letter by letter: the other 4 letters
1. וPsalms 78:3
  אֲשֶׁר שָׁמַעְנוּ וַנֵּדָעֵם וַאֲבוֹתֵינוּ סִפְּרוּ־לָֽנוּ
  That which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us,
2. רIsaiah 28:1
  הוֹי עֲטֶרֶת גֵּאוּת שִׁכֹּרֵי אֶפְרַיִם וְצִיץ נֹבֵל …
  Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, Which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are smitten down with wine!
3. יDeuteronomy 32:45
  וַיְכַל מֹשֶׁה לְדַבֵּר אֶת־כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים הָאֵלֶּה אֶל־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
  And when Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel,
4. הGenesis 3:24
  … הַמִּתְהַפֶּכֶת לִשְׁמֹר אֶת־דֶּרֶךְ עֵץ הַֽחַיִּֽים
  So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the garden of Eden the cherubim, and the flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way to the tree of life.
skip 298,185, width 298,185 — one row is 298,185 letters, so the 21 columns shown are the letters that stand beside the sequence in the text; it reads up the middle column.
letter 1,196,949 of the TanakhOpen at skip 298,185 in the laboratory →

The spelling

סוריה — the name in Hebrew letters: country in western Asia. Searched as סוריה, 5 letters, with a standard gematria value of 281.

It does not stand as a plain word anywhere in the Tanakh. Every word of the Tanakh in the Word Index →

Questions

Is Syria in the Torah codes?

Across every skip (2–76,212), סוריה appears 7,567 times in the Torah; chance alone would give about 7,924, so the count is in line with chance.

What is the shortest skip for Syria in the Torah?

Skip 3, reading forward from Genesis 18:20 — the shortest of 7,567 sequences across every skip (2–76,212), where chance alone would give about 7,924.

What is the gematria of Syria in Hebrew?

Syria is spelled סוריה — 5 letters searched, with a standard gematria value of 281.

How many times is Syria found in the whole Tanakh?

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