Hebrew Alphabet Value Chart

The Full Table

Reading the Columns

Standard is Mispar Hechrachi, the absolute value, and it is what an unlabelled Hebrew gematria number almost always means. Ordinal is Mispar Siduri, the letter's position from 1 to 22. Mispar Gadol matches the standard column everywhere except the five finals, which continue to 500-900. Reduced is Mispar Katan, every value collapsed to a single digit.

The Three Ranks

Alef through tet are the units, 1 to 9. Yod through tsadi are the tens, 10 to 90. Qof through tav are the hundreds, 100 to 400. The alphabet simply runs out before 900, which is exactly the gap Mispar Gadol fills by pressing the final letters into service as 500 through 900.

The Five Final Letters

Kaf, mem, nun, pe and tsadi each change shape at the end of a word. Under the standard method the change is purely visual and the value does not move. Under Mispar Gadol it moves a great deal: a final mem goes from 40 to 600. When you compare a total against a published figure and it is off by a suspiciously round amount, a final letter is the first thing to check.

Numbers Worth Recognising

Letters That Get Confused, and What the Mistake Costs

Most errors in hand calculation are not arithmetic. They are misread letters, and the Hebrew script has several pairs that differ by a single stroke. Knowing which pairs are dangerous, and how expensive each confusion is, catches the mistake before it reaches the total.

The dalet and resh pair deserves special attention, because the difference is a single tick and the cost is nearly two hundred. If a total is off by 196, that is almost certainly what happened.

Learning the Values Without Memorising 22 Facts

The ladder does most of the work for you. Learn the boundaries rather than the entries: alef starts at 1, yod starts the tens at 10, and qof starts the hundreds at 100. Everything in between simply steps up by the rank you are in.

That reduces the memory load to three anchors plus the alphabet order, which most people already half know. From yod, each following letter adds ten: kaf 20, lamed 30, mem 40. From qof, each adds a hundred: resh 200, shin 300, tav 400. There are only four letters in the hundreds rank, which is exactly why the ladder needs Mispar Gadol to reach 900.

Two further shortcuts. The ordinal column is just counting, so you never need to learn it. And the reduced column is the standard value with its zeros dropped, since 200 reduces to 2 and 30 reduces to 3. Only the standard column is genuinely new information.

Printing This Chart

This page is set up to print as a single clean sheet. Use your browser's print command and the navigation, calculator and site furniture are removed automatically, leaving the heading and the full table, with its header row repeated if it breaks across pages. There is no separate download to hunt for and no watermark.

If you are printing for study rather than reference, a copy you annotate by hand tends to work better than a clean one. The letters that give you trouble become obvious within a few days, and they are usually the confusable pairs above rather than the values themselves.

Calculate a Word

For writing numbers in Hebrew letters rather than valuing words, see Hebrew letter values. Rather than adding by hand, paste the word into the Hebrew gematria calculator and every method is applied at once, with the arithmetic shown so you can check it against this table.