Aleph-Bet Explorer

Every Hebrew letter is a shape, a sound, a name and a number. Tap a letter to see its values, its name spelled out, and the picture behind it. Then tap out your own words in the quick calculator below. For deep study, Rabbi Trugman's Gematria Calculator is the go-to. ⚡

Quick calculator Go deeper with Rabbi Trugman's Gematria Calculator ↗by Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman, Ohr Chadash

The 22 Letters

Read right to left, starting with Aleph. Tap a letter.

The 5 final forms (sofit)

Written at the end of a word. Standard value matches the regular letter; the extended system counts them 500 to 900.

Gematria Calculator

Go deeperGo deeper with Rabbi Trugman's Gematria Calculator ↗by Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman, Ohr Chadash. Search all of Tanach by word or by number, with ordinal, reduced, extended, milui, Atbash and Albam options.

VTC's quick tool: type or tap Hebrew letters for a letter-by-letter breakdown. Vowel points are ignored.

Hebrew word or phrase

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Reference chart

A Tabular Arrangement of the Aleph Bet according to their Numerical Value, a color chart by Aharon N. Varady: the Hebrew letters in rows of ones, tens and hundreds, each with its value, letter forms, name and meaning, plus a vowel pronunciation key.

"A Tabular Arrangement of the Aleph Bet according to their Numerical Value" (version 4.2) by Aharon N. Varady, from the Open Siddur Project, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Shown unmodified. Tap to open full size.

Sources · Credits

Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman, Ohr Chadash: Gematria and Tanach search tool (program by David Komer, an Ohr Chadash alumnus). Also the source for the extended ordinal values 23 to 27 of the final letters.
Rav Yitzchak Ginsburgh, The Hebrew Letters: Channels of Creative Consciousness, excerpts at Gal Einai (inner.org). Each letter panel links to its page.
Wikipedia: Gematria (standard, ordinal, reduced and extended methods, and letter-name milui) and Hebrew alphabet (names and pronunciation).
Hebcal: Numerical values of Hebrew letters.
Reference chart: Aharon N. Varady, Open Siddur Project, CC BY-SA 4.0, unmodified.
Picture meanings are the commonly taught meanings of the letter names and their early letter shapes. Milui uses one standard spelling of each letter name; common alternate spellings are listed with their values.

VTC's creative interpretation. Any errors are ours.

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