a word borrowed from the Greek, either corresponding to or , denotes, among the Cabalists, a rule according to which the Scripture was explained. The idea of this rule was. since every letter is a numeral, to reduce the word to the number it contains, and to explain the word by another of the same quantity. Thus, from the words, “Lo! three men stood by him” (Gen 18:2), it is deduced that these three angels were Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, because ; and lo! three men, and , these are Michael, Gabrie, and Raphael, are of the same numerical value, as will be seen from the following reduction to their numerical value of both these phrases: 5+300+30+300+5+50+5+6=701 30+1+10+200+2+3+30+ 1 +20 +10+40 +6+30 +1 +30 +1 +80+200+6=701. From the passage, “And all the inhabitants of the earth were of one language” (Gen 11:1), is deduced that all spoke Hebrew; being changed for its synonym , and =5+100+4+300=409, is substituted for its equivalent =l+8+400=409. Or the word in the passage, “For behold, I will bring forth my servant, the Branch” (Zec 3:8), must mean the Messiah; for it amounts numerically to the same as “Comforter” (Lam 1:16)=138. So in the passage, “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come,” amounts numerically to the same as =358; hence Shiloh must be the Messiah. SEE CABALA. (B.P.)<\/p>\n
ge-matri-a. See NUMBER; GAMES.<\/p>\n
Gematria a word borrowed from the Greek, either corresponding to or , denotes, among the Cabalists, a rule according to which the Scripture was explained. The idea of this rule was. since every letter is a numeral, to reduce the word to the number it contains, and to explain the word by another of the … Continue reading “Gematria”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}