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Letters counted as numbers.
Also known as: Hebrew letter numerals
The Hebrew system assigning a numeric value to each letter, used for dates, enumeration and interpretation.
Assigns a numeric value to each Hebrew letter, so that letters can write numbers.
Contexts: Mathematics, Religion
The number fifteen is written with a nine and a six rather than a ten and a five, because the expected combination would spell a divine name — a numeral system with a deliberate gap in it.
Contexts: Mathematics, Religion
Also used interpretively, to relate words whose letters sum alike; that practice is a tradition of reading and the record is cited for its existence, not for any conclusion drawn from it.
Contexts: Mathematics, Religion
Ordinary Hebrew letters read as numbers, marked with a geresh or gershayim, the units in the first nine letters and the tens and hundreds following.