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The values range from and are similar to those used in Hebrew gematria, with alpha being equal to 1. Greek gematria can be used in much the same way as Hebrew gematria, but its application is more limited due to its rarity. A cryptograph which gives, instead of the intended word, its numerical value, or a cipher produced by the permutation of letters. The term first occurs in literature in the twenty-ninth of the thirty-two hermeneutic rules of R. In some texts the rule for permutative gemaṭria is counted as a separate regulation—the thirtieth (comp. Königsberger’s edition of the rules in his “Monatsblätter für Vergangenheit und Gegenwart des Judenthums”). Waldberg (“Darke ha-Shinnuyim”), who gives a list of 147 cases of gemaṭria occurring in traditional literature, includes in this number cases of symbolical numbers, which properly belong to the twenty-seventh rule (“ke-neged”). Variant spellings of some letters can be used to produce sets of different numbers, which can be added up or analyzed separately. SeptenaryGematria.com is another free website with an online gematria calculator. Along with that, you also get options to remove vowels and remove consonants. It shows you the gematria of each character of the input as well. GematriaEffect.news has a free web app to calculate gematria online.
