Meaning & use
gematria
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A traditional Jewish system of assigning numerical values to letters of the Hebrew alphabet, used to find hidden meanings or connections between words.
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Through gematria, scholars found that two seemingly unrelated words in the text shared the same numerical value.
Gematria has influenced numerology practices well beyond its original religious context.
A note on using this word
Rooted in Jewish mysticism and biblical study, particularly in Kabbalah, though similar letter-number systems exist in other traditions too.
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