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The year 5739 תשל״ט

5739 in the Jewish calendar is written ה׳תשל״ט — the ה is the 5,000 years, and the letters after it are the 739 since. Written on its own, as it is on nearly every page that carries a date, the year is תשל״ט, and those letters add to 739.

The letters, and what each is worth

ת400ש300ל30ט9תשל״ט739

400 + 300 + 30 + 9 = 739, 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׳תשל״ט: the first letter carries the 5,000. In ordinary use it is left off and the year is written תשל״ט 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 5,739, and 739 is what its letters spell.

What the letters spell

The four letters in this order are also a word of the twenty-four books, standing 3 times. See where →

739 in the Tanakh

17 words, 871 phrases and 1 whole verse carry the value 739 under the standard method — 888 matches in all.

Open the page for 739 →

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.