Gematria

Quick meaning: Gematria is a noun meaning A cabalistic method of interpreting Hebrew words, based on numerical values of letters.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

Word Forms

• gematrias
• gematriot
• gematrioth

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cabbalism, cabbala, cabbalah, kabalah, cabalism, qabalah.

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