Genesis 1:1 describes God creating the heavens and the earth, establishing the setting in which mankind is subsequently created. This identity symbolically connects the conventional Hebrew values associated with God and mankind to the total value of the Bible’s opening verse.
The words יהוה (YHWH) and אדם (Adam) are used as symbolic terms in this calculation; neither word appears in Genesis 1:1 itself.
Traditional Hebrew gematria is used:
יהוה (YHWH): 10 + 5 + 6 + 5 = 26
אדם (Adam): 1 + 4 + 40 = 45
Square each value and add the two results. The resulting number is compared with the traditional Hebrew gematria total of Genesis 1:1.
The traditional Hebrew letter-value table below verifies that the seven words of Genesis 1:1 have a combined value of 2701.
The alphabet-position table is included for reference but is not used in this calculation.| Genesis 1:1 | |
|---|---|
| Hebrew Word | Number of Letters |
| בראשית | 6 |
| ברא | 3 |
| אלהימ | 5 |
| את | 2 |
| השםימ | 5 |
| ואת | 3 |
| הארצ | 4 |
| Total Words: 7 | Total Letters: 28 |
| Traditional Hebrew Letter Values | Word Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 200 | 1 | 300 | 10 | 400 | 913 |
| 2 | 200 | 1 | 203 | |||
| 1 | 30 | 5 | 10 | 40 | 86 | |
| 1 | 400 | 401 | ||||
| 5 | 300 | 40 | 10 | 40 | 395 | |
| 6 | 1 | 400 | 407 | |||
| 5 | 1 | 200 | 90 | 296 | ||
| Verse Value Total | 2701 | |||||
| Hebrew Alphabet Positions | Word Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 20 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 22 | 76 |
| 2 | 20 | 1 | 23 | |||
| 1 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 41 | |
| 1 | 22 | 23 | ||||
| 5 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 62 | |
| 6 | 1 | 22 | 29 | |||
| 5 | 1 | 20 | 18 | 44 | ||
| Verse Position Total | 298 | |||||