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Bethsheba Ashe
Biblical Gematria was a system of formal mathematics.

Gematria Quiz

Biblical Gematria Ciphers
Biblical Gematria Ciphers. Copyright Bethsheba Ashe 2024

So it’s THAT day again, and you need a distraction from yourself, or himself, or one of the kids? I’ve got you. Take five, make a brew, and see if you can solve this gematria quiz. I’ll post the answers tomorrow. Consult the image below for the ciphers. Each question is an example of real gematria in the Tanakh, although for this Quiz I’ve went easy with you and they’re not too difficult. Remember – unless the entire line is gematria, you only count the nouns, and some of the verbs or prepositions indicate the type of calculation you ought to be doing.

Abbreviations: (b.g) : biblical gematria, (r.c) : reversal cipher, (s.c) : standard cipher, (nota) : notariqon.

Biblical Gematria Ciphers. Copyright Bethsheba Ashe 2024
  1. What is the gematria of Genesis 1:1 with the b.g cipher?
    בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ׃  
  2. What is the gematria of Genesis 1:3 with the b.g. cipher?
    ויאמר אלהים יהי אור ויהי אור׃
  3. What is the gematria of the notariqon of Genesis 15:2-3 with the s.c cipher?
    ויאמר אברם אדני יהוה מה תתן לי ואנכי הולך ערירי ובן משק ביתי הוא דמשק אליעזר ויאמר אברם הן לי לא נתתה זרע והנה בן ביתי יורש אתי
  4. What is the gematria of all the letters of the Hebrew alphabet… except the letter Beth, using the b.g cipher?
    אגשדתהוזחטיכלמנסעפצקר
  5. What is the gematria sum of Genesis 9:25 with the b.g cipher. (Clue, a curse is a division by 2 of the next word.)
    ויאמר ארור כנען עבד עבדים יהיה לאחיו
  6. What is the gematria sum of Judges 4:1 with the b.g. cipher? (Clue, the letter ayin used to be an eye, and the letter Nun was associated with death.)
    ויספו בני ישראל לעשות הרע בעיני יהוה ואהוד מת
  7. What is the gematria sum of the name of Jerusalem when iterated with the reversal cipher?
    י יר ירו ירוש ירושל ירושלם
  8. What is the gematria sum of Job 1:1 with the b.g cipher?
    איש היה בארץ עוץ איוב שמו והיה האיש ההוא תם וישר וירא אלהים וסר מרע
  9. What is the gematria of Bereshit when iterated with the reversal cipher?
    ב בר ברא בראש בראשי בראשית
  10. What is the gematria of Deuteronomy 6:5 with the b.g. cipher?
    ואהבת את יהוה אלהיך בכל לבבך ובכל נפשך ובכל מאדך

Check the comments tomorrow for the solutions. Also – let me know if you’d like me to set more Quiz questions in the future!

About the Author
Bethsheba Ashe is a fifty three year old tea-drinking cryptographer who broke the gematria ciphers to the Bible and the Book of the Law. She is the author of two books on Biblical Hermeneutics; "Behold: The Art and Practice of Gematria" and "Chariot: An Essay on Bereshit and the Merkabah." She is the creator of the popular ‘Shematria’ online calculator, and inventor of the Galay writing script. Currently she lives in Pennsylvania and is creating an open-world VR Island adventure game with her boyfriend, two cats and a cockatoo, but she says she owes all her success to Tetley.
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