About

Gematria: An Index of Sacred Numbers is a deterministic reference for the thirty-nine books of the Hebrew Bible. Every page sits at one gematria value: the canonical Hebrew word whose consonants sum to that number, its transliteration, and the explicit letter math any reader can verify by hand.

Each number is an ark. Inside sit every Hebrew word whose letters add to the same weight — words that share nothing else but their numerical signature.

Every entry is grounded in source. Meanings come from Brown-Driver-Briggs, the standard scholarly Hebrew lexicon, joined to the Westminster Leningrad Codex via the open-source Sefaria corpus. Function words are filtered out so that only concrete nouns, verbs, adjectives, and proper nouns reach the page. What you read is what BDB actually says — never what an algorithm guessed.

Each page carries up to five witnesses: verses where the word appears, with the keyword bolded so the eye lands on it — and a distribution table showing the eight books with the highest occurrence counts, alongside the total across all thirty-nine.

A YHVH+ section pairs every value with its sum-plus-twenty-six — the gematria of the Tetragrammaton — opening narrative chains that combine any number with the divine Name.

The print edition is published by Shaleden Press. The web edition continues to grow: more words, new categories, ongoing corrections from readers in practice.

By Ruben Alexander. More at shaledensway.com.