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Hebrew gematria, which is now identified as a technique of assigning numerical worth to words and phrases, has its roots in the ancient Jewish tradition of counting the number of occasions each and every letter appeared in the scriptures. The specialists assigned to this crucial duty have been identified as Soferim and they made certain [...]

Ordinal value gematria, named mispar siduri in Hebrew, is fairly equivalent to the Absolute value method, except that as a substitute of assigning numbers in multiples of 10 soon after the tenth letter, the 22 letters in mispar siduri are just assigned a value from one by means of 22, with the final kaf being [...]