The Complete Hebrew Alphabet Number Chart: Every Letter, Every Value, Every Meaning
A comprehensive reference chart of all 22 Hebrew letters with their numeric values, names, meanings, and pictographic origins. The essential resource for biblical gematria study.
A useful Hebrew alphabet number chart separates the 22 base letters from the five final forms and tells the reader exactly which counting method is in view. Standard values are stable; final-form and ordinal variants should be labeled, not blended together.
This page can absorb the practical value of the older Aleph-Bet explainer while avoiding a common mistake: later pictograph associations may be discussed as interpretive tradition, but they should not be presented as settled lexical facts of biblical Hebrew.
The Hebrew alphabet is not just a writing system — it is a numeric system, a pictographic system, and a theological system all in one. Each letter has a name, a picture, a sound, and a number. Here is your complete reference. Keep the site’s normalization and counting rules beside the chart so different methods are not blended together.
Letters 1-9: The Units
א Aleph (1): Ox head — strength, leadership, the beginning
Start with the Hebrew names of God: El (אל) = 31, Elohim (אלהים) = 86, YHWH (יהוה) = 26. Each reveals a dimension of God's character through mathematics.
The psalm is arranged as a 22-part acrostic, one section for each Hebrew letter.
Observation
The alphabet is not a modern study aid pasted onto Scripture; it is built into biblical literary structure.
Numbers 6:24-26
Context
The Aaronic blessing is a short, memorized Hebrew unit often discussed in letter-count and word-count studies.
Observation
It reminds readers that exact Hebrew form matters when they begin counting words, letters, or values.
Lexical or mathematical evidence
Chart facts that need to stay explicit
Base alphabet
22 letters
Hebrew runs from א through ת before final-form variants are considered.
Final forms
ך ם ן ף ץ
These can retain ordinary values in standard gematria or receive extended values in Mispar Gadol.
Counting boundary
Letters count; niqqud does not
Vowel points are not added as separate numeric values in the core method.
Worked examples and tables
Reference calculations that use the chart
Common Hebrew examples with final forms visible
Example
Visible calculation
Standard total
Why it matters
יהוה
י 10 + ה 5 + ו 6 + ה 5
26
Shows a stable divine-name calculation.
אלהים
א 1 + ל 30 + ה 5 + י 10 + ם 40
86
Shows final mem under the standard method.
שלום
ש 300 + ל 30 + ו 6 + ם 40
376
Shows a common word ending in a final letter form.
Interpretive alternatives
How this chart should be read
Reference-table reading
High
The chart is first a reproducible table of letter values and spelling conventions.
Traditional-symbolic reading
Moderate
Readers may note later symbolic or pictographic associations, but those should be identified as interpretive tradition rather than core grammar.
Pictograph-as-proof reading
Low
Building a full doctrinal claim from a pictograph sequence alone pushes beyond the strongest evidence.
Confidence label
What is firm and what is tentative
Moderate
Moderate
The value chart itself is firm. Symbolic readings attached to letter shapes or names should stay clearly subordinate to standard Hebrew spelling and usage.
High confidence: the standard, final-form, and ordinal tables.
Moderate confidence: traditional symbolic associations when they are labeled as such.
Low confidence: claims that a pictograph message alone determines meaning.