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Bible names in gematria
By the Gematria.Today Editorial Team · UpdatedThe English gematria value of 45 names and words from the Bible, each worked out letter by letter on its own page. Values use the cipher this site uses everywhere: A = 6, B = 12, up to Z = 156. How the values are worked out, or see the Hebrew gematria chart for the letter values of the Hebrew Bible.
God and the names of Christ
| Name | Value | Who or what |
|---|---|---|
| God | 156 | The common English name for the one God of the Bible, used throughout both Testaments. |
| Jesus | 444 | Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of the New Testament. The English name comes through Greek Iēsous from the Hebrew Yeshua. |
| Christ | 462 | From the Greek Christos, "anointed one", the New Testament translation of the Hebrew title Messiah. |
| Jesus Christ | 906 | The name and title together, as the New Testament letters most often write them. |
| Messiah | 444 | From the Hebrew mashiach, "anointed one". The expected deliverer of the Hebrew prophets, and the title Christians apply to Jesus. |
| Lord | 294 | The word most English Bibles use in place of the divine name YHWH, set in small capitals as LORD. |
| Jehovah | 414 | An English rendering of the divine name YHWH, used in a handful of verses of the King James Version. |
| Yahweh | 420 | The scholarly reconstruction of how the divine name YHWH was pronounced. |
| Holy Spirit | 906 | The third person of the Trinity in Christian teaching, usually called the Holy Ghost in the King James Version. |
| Immanuel | 528 | Hebrew for "God with us", the name given in Isaiah 7:14 and applied to Jesus in Matthew 1:23. |
Old Testament figures
| Name | Value | Who or what |
|---|---|---|
| Adam | 114 | The first man in the Genesis creation account. The Hebrew adam also means "human" or "mankind". |
| Eve | 192 | The first woman in Genesis, named by Adam "because she was the mother of all living". |
| Noah | 228 | The builder of the ark in the Genesis flood narrative. |
| Abraham | 264 | The patriarch called out of Ur in Genesis, regarded as the father of the Jewish people and honoured in Christianity and Islam. |
| Isaac | 198 | The son of Abraham and Sarah, and father of Jacob and Esau. |
| Jacob | 186 | The son of Isaac, renamed Israel in Genesis 32. His twelve sons give their names to the tribes of Israel. |
| Moses | 426 | The prophet who led Israel out of Egypt and received the Law at Sinai. |
| David | 240 | The shepherd who became Israel's second king, traditionally the author of many of the Psalms. |
| Solomon | 618 | The son of David and builder of the first Temple in Jerusalem, remembered for his wisdom. |
| Elijah | 270 | The prophet of the books of Kings who confronted the prophets of Baal and was taken up in a whirlwind. |
| Isaiah | 282 | The eighth-century BC prophet whose book is among the most quoted in the New Testament. |
| Daniel | 270 | The exile in Babylon whose book contains the lions' den and the visions of the four beasts and the seventy weeks. |
New Testament figures
| Name | Value | Who or what |
|---|---|---|
| Mary | 342 | The mother of Jesus. Several other Marys appear in the Gospels, among them Mary Magdalene. |
| Joseph | 438 | The husband of Mary in the Gospels. Also the son of Jacob in Genesis who rose to rule in Egypt. |
| John | 282 | The name of John the Baptist and of the apostle John, traditionally linked to the fourth Gospel and the book of Revelation. |
| Peter | 384 | The apostle Simon, renamed Peter, from the Greek petros, "rock". |
| Paul | 300 | The apostle formerly called Saul of Tarsus, whose letters make up much of the New Testament. |
| Judas | 330 | Judas Iscariot, the apostle who betrayed Jesus. Another apostle, Judas son of James, shares the name. |
Angels and the adversary
| Name | Value | Who or what |
|---|---|---|
| Michael | 306 | The archangel named in Daniel, Jude and Revelation, where he leads the angels against the dragon. |
| Gabriel | 324 | The angel who interprets Daniel's visions and announces the births of John the Baptist and Jesus. |
| Lucifer | 444 | Latin for "light-bearer", the King James rendering of "morning star" in Isaiah 14:12, later used as a name for Satan. |
| Satan | 330 | From the Hebrew for "adversary" or "accuser", the opponent of God and humanity in the Bible. |
| Antichrist | 726 | A figure named only in the letters of John, and identified by many readers with the beast of Revelation 13. |
Places
| Name | Value | Who or what |
|---|---|---|
| Israel | 384 | The name given to Jacob, then to his descendants, their kingdom and the land. |
| Jerusalem | 624 | The city David made his capital and the site of the Temple, central to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. |
| Zion | 384 | Originally a hill in Jerusalem, and by extension the city, its people or the dwelling place of God. |
| Babylon | 426 | The Mesopotamian capital that took Judah into exile, and in Revelation a symbol of a corrupt world power. |
| Bethlehem | 468 | The town of David's family, and the birthplace of Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. |
Scripture and faith
| Name | Value | Who or what |
|---|---|---|
| Bible | 180 | From the Greek biblia, "books": the collected scriptures of Judaism and Christianity. |
| Genesis | 468 | The first book of the Bible, from the Greek for "origin". |
| Revelation | 726 | The last book of the New Testament, also called the Apocalypse, from the Greek for "unveiling". |
| Gospel | 444 | From the Old English godspel, "good news", translating the Greek euangelion. |
| Heaven | 330 | The sky, and in the Bible the dwelling place of God. |
| Hell | 222 | The English word used for Sheol, Hades and Gehenna in older translations. |
| Amen | 198 | A Hebrew word meaning "so be it" or "truly", said at the end of a prayer. |
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