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The year 5680 תר״פ

5680 in the Jewish calendar is written ה׳תר״פ — the ה is the 5,000 years, and the letters after it are the 680 since. Written on its own, as it is on nearly every page that carries a date, the year is תר״פ, and those letters add to 680.

The letters, and what each is worth

ת400ר200פ80תר״פ680

400 + 200 + 80 = 680, computed by the same engine that computes every value on this site, over the same consonantal letters.

Why the five thousand is missing

The full form is ה׳תר״פ: the first letter carries the 5,000. In ordinary use it is left off and the year is written תר״פ followed by לפ״ק — lifrat katan, “by the minor reckoning”, which is the writer saying out loud that the thousands have been dropped. It is a habit of writing and not a claim about the number: the year is 5,680, and 680 is what its letters spell.

What the letters spell

No word of the twenty-four books is written תרפ, though the same letters rearranged do spell words the text uses. The year’s letters are a numeral here, not a word, and this page will not make one out of them.

680 in the Tanakh

192 words, 835 phrases and 1 whole verse carry the value 680 under the standard method — 1,027 matches in all.

Open the page for 680 →

The letters of a Jewish year are a numeral, and this page treats them as one. Every value here is the engine’s, computed on the consonantal letters at the moment the page is served, and every count is read from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Nothing on this page is a prediction.