Relating to gematria, a Jewish practice of assigning numerical values to letters in Hebrew words to find hidden meanings.
From gematria (Greek geometria influence) + -ical suffix. Gematria comes from Hebrew, where each letter has a numerical value, allowing rabbis to analyze texts by adding up letter values.
This word reveals how ancient Jewish scholars were essentially doing cryptography and numerology combined—they believed God encoded messages in the numerical values of biblical text, making every number in scripture potentially significant.
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