Find names spelled by the first or last letters of consecutive words and verses.
Type a name or any string of letters (one per line), or press “72 Names” to load the 72 three-letter Names.
The page goes over every run of consecutive words and checks whether their first letters, in order, spell the name (an acrostic), or their last letters. For example, the words מה שמו הגדול have the first letters מ, ש, ה, which spell משה.
If you tick “first letter of verses” or “last letter of verses”, consecutive verses are checked instead of consecutive words.
The 72 Names come from Exodus 14:19-21, three verses of 72 letters each.
Under “More options”: a final letter (ך ם ן ף ץ) counts as its ordinary form; you can require all the words to be in one verse; and you can read the name backwards.
Gematria adds up the numerical value of each letter. Type a number (for example 541) or a word (for example ישראל). A word is turned into a number by the method you choose.
The page finds every word, pair of consecutive words (in one verse) or whole verse in the text whose value equals that number. Below, choose which of the three to look for.
Methods: standard (alef 1 … yod 10 … kof 100 … tav 400); large (final letters ך ם ן ף ץ count 500-900); small (no zeros: yod 1, kof 1); ordinal (alef 1 … tav 22); AtBash and AlBam (each letter swapped for its partner, then standard value); milui (the value of the letter’s spelled-out name, e.g. א = אלף = 111); kolel (standard value plus 1 per word).
A skip code (“Torah code”) reads the text as one long line of letters with no spaces: take a letter, skip a fixed number of letters, take the next, and so on. If the letters collected spell the word, that is a find.
Type a word (at least 3 letters, up to 8 words) and set the range of skips to try, for example 2 to 1,000 (any range from 1 to 45,000). Skip 1 is the plain text. By default the word is read forwards; tick the box to also read backwards.
Clicking a find shows it as a grid: the text laid out in rows as long as the skip, so the letters of the word stand one above the other. When you search several words, “near each other” shows places where another word falls inside the same grid.
Next to each word you see how many finds a random text with the same letters would be expected to give. A count close to the expected one is just what any long text does.
A word counts as “near” when all its letters fall inside the grid of the first find: its rows plus three rows above and below, and up to seven columns on each side. With 3 to 5 words, groups of 3, 4 and 5 words in one grid are shown too, ordered by the area they cover.
