The app offers many possibilities for fun and exploration, and is designed to be user-friendly. A Gematria decoder, such as the online calculator above, works out the value of any letter, word, or phrase for you and saves you the trouble of calculating each letter. However, if you prefer to do the calculation yourself then see the Gematria chart below. The word gematria is thought to be derived from the Greek letter gamma (the third letter in the Greek alphabet) since the number "3" in numerology has special significance. Others claim that it is derived from the Greek word geometria, which means "geometry." There is no consensus and nobody really knows for sure. However, the most common use of gematria is to obtain a more spiritual understanding of a religious text. The exact meaning drawn from gematria depends on a person's individual beliefs. An ancient version of gematria was a fully developed mathematical system that used words to reveal sums that they intended future readers to discover. The Hebrew Gematria is the oldest known Gematria, and you should have a separate Hebrew gematria calculator to find the values in the Hebrew Gematria. The Gematria Hebrew is specific and there is no regularity of the numeric except for the first 5 numbers of the English alphabets. Gematria has been used by many religious and mystical traditions over the centuries, including kabbalists, astrologers, magicians, and alchemists. Its use was particularly important in Jewish mysticism where it was believed that certain words possess special power when they are composed with specific gematria numbers. Words with powerful gematria values were thought to have magical properties that could bring about specific results or provide protection against evil forces. Write a program / a function / a code snippet in your language-of-choice, which is first set up with an alphabet (see API below) and then accept an argument. If it's an Integer - your program should output/return its representation in the alphabet symbols - the most compacted one (see (2) above). If it is a word or a phrase, your program should output/return the Gematria Value (by summing up symbols' values, not counting whitespaces, see (1) above). The pseudoscientific practice of numerology holds that a certain number has a mystical or divine connection to one or more related events. The value of the characters in words, names, and concepts is another aspect of this field of research. It is frequently linked to the supernatural, along with astrology, and is comparable to divinatory practices. The number 22 also possesses additional spiritual potency because it is a master number.