The year 5749 תשמ״ט
5749 in the Jewish calendar is written ה׳תשמ״ט — the ה is the 5,000 years, and the letters after it are the 749 since. Written on its own, as it is on nearly every page that carries a date, the year is תשמ״ט, and those letters add to 749.
The letters, and what each is worth
400 + 300 + 40 + 9 = 749, 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׳תשמ״ט: the first letter carries the 5,000. In ordinary use it is left off and the year is written תשמ״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 5,749, and 749 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 1 time. See where →
749 in the Tanakh
12 words, 904 phrases and 2 whole verses carry the value 749 under the standard method — 916 matches in all.
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.