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‖ gematria|giːˈmeɪtrɪə|
Also 7 gematry.
[Rabbinical Heb. gēmaṭriyā, a. Gr. γεωµετρία geometry. (The suggestion that it represents Gr. γραµµατεία is unfounded.)]
A cabbalistic method of interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures by interchanging words whose letters have the same numerical value when added.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. i. 156, I am perswaded..that there may be something in Cabala, Gematry, something in the mysterious Force of Numbers, in Critical Days, Climacteric Years, &c. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Gematria, the first kind of arithmetical cabala, in use among the cabalistical Jews. 1884J. Gow Gr. Mathem. 44 The supposed antiquity of gematria depends solely on a conjectural and improbable comment on Zechariah xii. 10. There is in fact no clear instance of gematria before Philo or Christian writers strongly under Philonic influence (e.g. Rev. xiii. 18; Ep. Barn. c. 9). 1892Edin. Rev. July 77 Belief in the gematria or mystic value of letters in the Scriptures. |