Gematria: Roman

Here is a standard table of the numeric values for gematria in the Roman alphabet.

  1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9  
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z

The Roman gematria system is unlike the Greek and Hebrew systems, in which many letters have values greater than 10 and even greater than 100. In those systems a word can easily have a two-, three- or even four-digit value. (For example, the Hebrew word aretz, (ארץ), “earth”, has a value of 1101.)

In Roman-alphabet gematria, however, it is common to subject any value greater than 9 to Pythagorean Reduction, in which the digits of the number are recursively added to each other until a final value from 1 to 9 is derived. For example, starting from the value 798, the calculation would run as follows:

7 + 9 + 8 = 24
2 + 4 = 6

for a final value of 6.

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