Meaning of gematria | Babel Free

Definitions

A cabalistic method of interpreting Hebrew words, based on numerical values of letters.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Suppose⟳ a secret force⟳ of Jesuits, receives each Day a summary of Observations made at Greenwich, and transcalculates it according to a system known to the Kabbalists of the Second Century as Gematria, whereby Messages may be extracted from lines of Text sacred and otherwise, a Knowledge preserv’d by various Custodians over the centuries, and since the Last⟳, possess’d by Jesuit and Freemason alike.”

“each letter in this alphabet also has its own⟳ numerical value, what was known among ancient Jewish students of the Torah as ‘gematria’.”

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