23 December 2018
gematria
[guh-mey-tree-uh]
noun
1. a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
Origin of gematria
Greek, Hebrew
1685-1695; < Hebrew gēmaṭriyā < Greek geōmetría geometry
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Examples from the Web for gematria
Historical Examples
Yet, by the Kabbalistic rules of gematria and Temurah might they not be exhumed?
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1
Elizabeth Bisland
The word is a cabalistic cryptogram—an instance of gematria —for Babel.
The Expositor’s Bible: The Book of Daniel
F. W. Farrar
Machlah by gematria equals eighty-three; and all may be avoided by an early breakfast of bread and salt and a bottle of water.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
Various
And let us now assume a point in dispute in order to illustrate how it is solved by gematria.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
Various
You mentioned some works on the numerical Cabbala, the gematria (I think) they call it.
Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. II (of 2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Word Origin and History for gematria
n.
1680s, from Hebrew gematriya, from Greek geometria (see geometry ). “[E]xplanation of the sense of a word by substituting for it another word, so that the numerical value of the letters constituting either word is identical” [Klein].
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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On this day
23 December 1947 – Bell Laboratories demonstrates the world’s first transistor radio.
23 December 1972 – 16 survivors of a plane-crash in the Andes, Argentina are rescued. The plane had crashed on 13 October 1972, carrying 45 people. A number of passengers were killed in the crash and some died later from exposure to the cold. Eight died in an avalanche. The survivors lived on chocolate bars, cabin food and the bodies of those who had died.
23 December 1982 – Israeli Consulate in Sydney and Hakoah Club in Bondi, Australia, bombings – both bombings were undertaken by the same three suspects. Two people were injured in the Israeli Consulate bombing and no injuries were recorded in the Hakoah bombing.
23 December 2005 – an earthquake in South-East Asia kills approximately 87,000 people, followed by a chemical spill that poisons China’s Songhue River, contaminating the water supply of millions of people.
23 December 2013 – death of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Soviet Union hero, inventor of the world’s most popular assault weapon, the AK-47, or ‘Kalashnikov’. The AK-47 stood for Kalashnikov Assault, 1947, the year it was designed. He was awarded the ‘Hero of Russia’ medal as well as Lenin and Stalin prizes. Kalashnikov invented the AK-47 to protect the national borders of the Soviet Union. The AK-47 has a simple design, which makes it very reliable and easy to replicate. Kalashnikov hadn’t patented the design internationally. As a result, of the estimated 100 million AK-47s in the world today, it is believed that at least half are copies. Although his weapon has been favoured by armies and guerillas across the globe, Kalashnikov claimed he never lost sleep over the numbers of people killed by it. He always maintained that he invented it to protect the ‘Fatherland’s borders’. He did however, rue the use of it by child soldiers. Kalashnikov was a World War II veteran who was wounded in 1941. While recovering in hospital he conceived the design. Born 10 November 1919.
