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As nouns the difference between gematria and isopsephy

is that gematria is a Kabbalistic method of interpreting Hebrew words, based on numerical values of letters while isopsephy is the practice of adding up the numerical values of the letters in a word to form a single number.

gematria

Noun

  • A Kabbalistic method of interpreting Hebrew words, based on numerical values of letters.
  • * 1997 , Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon :
  • Suppose a secret force of Jesuits, receives each Day a summary of Observations made at Greenwich, and transcalculates it according to a system known to the Kabbalists of the Second Century as Gematria , whereby Messages may be extracted from lines of Text sacred and otherwise, a Knowledge preserv’d by various Custodians over the centuries, and since the Last, possess’d by Jesuit and Freemason alike.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 897:
  • each letter in this alphabet also has its own numerical value , what was known among ancient Jewish students of the Torah as ‘gematria ’.

    Derived terms

    * gematric

    isopsephy

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia isopsephy)
  • The practice of adding up the numerical values of the letters in a word to form a single number.
  • See also

    * gematria