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    In numerology, gematria (/ɡəˈmeɪtriə/; Hebrew: גמטריא or גימטריה, gimatria, plural גמטראות or גימטריות, gimatriot) is the practice of assigning a numerical...
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    "numerology" is not recorded in English before c. 1907. The practice of gematria, assigning numerical values to words and names and imputing those values...
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  • Pythagoras of Samos, practiced isopsephy, the Greek predecessor of Hebrew gematria. Pythagoras was a contemporary of the philosophers Anaximander, Anaximenes...
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    within modern esoteric practices. There are various systems of English gematria, sometimes referred to as English Qabalah, that are related to Hermetic...
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  • Eliphas Levi before being popularized in contemporary esoteric magic. Gematria was extrapolated from The Equinox vol. 1, no.5 where it was originally...
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  • is used in loanwords and foreign names to denote [ʒ] as in vision. In gematria, zayin represents the number seven, and when used at the beginning of Hebrew...
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    are usually interpreted by applying one of three methods:: 718  Using gematria to find the numbers that equate to the names of world leaders, to check...
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  • reused to serve as thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands. Gematria (Jewish numerology) uses these transformations extensively. In Israel today...
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  • man's body The gematria of Shaddai, one of God's names Number of men Abraham took to battle against the 4 kings (Genesis 14:14); also gematria of Eliezer...
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  • have raised the possibility of gematria on various occasions in the Hebrew Bible. There are at least two cases of gematria appearing in the New Testament...
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    Basmala (section Gematria)
    The Basmala (Arabic: بَسْمَلَة, basmalah; also known by its opening words Bi-smi llāh; بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ, "In the name of God"), or Tasmiyyah (Arabic: تَسْمِيَّة)...
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  • changes from מ‎ to ם‎. In gematria, Mem represents the number 40 in both the Standard and Mispar Gadol Methods of Gematria; However, (mem sofit) final...
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  • pronunciation. [tˤ] is also probably the pronunciation in Biblical Hebrew. In gematria, Tet represents the number nine. When followed by an apostrophe, it means...
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  • metal genre towards a groove metal style. Songs such as the opening track "Gematria (The Killing Name)" and the title track espouse the band's more brutal...
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  • last letter in the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system/isopsephy (gematria), it has a value of 800. The word literally means "great O" (o mega, mega...
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    such as 7, 10, 12, and 40 were known for recurring in symbolic contexts. Gematria is form of cipher used to generate a numerical equivalent for a Hebrew...
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  • contexts and even then often only by careful readers of the scriptures. In gematria, He symbolizes the number five, and when used at the beginning of Hebrew...
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  • numerals in Arabic are similar to the earlier alphanumeric codes of Hebrew gematria and Greek isopsephy. The Abjad order of the Arabic alphabet has two slightly...
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  • לָמֶד Lamed transcribes as an alveolar lateral approximant /l/. Lamed in gematria represents the number 30. With the letter Vav it refers to the Lamedvavniks...
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  • from various mystical and magical systems. Crowley explains in his essay "Gematria" that he changed the magical formula to include 'H' for qabalistic reasons...
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    A tetractys of the letters of the Tetragrammaton adds up to 72 by gematria....
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  • Arabic letter can be assigned a specific numerical value, also called gematria: Abdullah Arik, a Quranistic author, uses this method in his book Beyond...
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    text reasons that Metatron is called the Lesser YHWH because in Hebrew gematria, Metatron is numerically equivalent to another name of God Shaddai. Scholem...
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  • Aiwass (section Gematria)
    that he was, labored to discover Aiwass's number within the system of gematria. Initially he believed that it was 78: "I had decided on AIVAS = 78, the...
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    Barnabas also employs another technique of ancient Jewish exegesis, that of gematria, the ascription of religious significance to the numerical value of letters...
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    the beast in the Book of Revelation, adding up to 666, is derived from a gematria of the name of Nero Caesar, indicating that Nero was viewed as an exceptionally...
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    other canonical texts contained encoded messages and hidden meanings. Gematria is one method for discovering its hidden meanings. In this system, each...
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  • Ithiel (section In Gematria)
    of heaven" and of being the weight of judgment for the men of God. In gematria, or Jewish isopsephy, Ithiel equals 452, which has an exact correspondence...
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  • needed] Bet in gematria represents the number 2.[citation needed] Bet is the first letter of the Torah. As Bet is the number 2 in gematria, this is said...
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  • called isopsephy. Similar practices for the Hebrew and English are called gematria and English Qaballa, respectively. Alternatively, sub-sections of manuscripts...
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