The Mathers table of Hebrew

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 and "Chaldee

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" letters is a tabular display of the pronunciation, appearance, numerical values, transliteration, names, and symbolism of the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet

Hebrew alphabet

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 appearing in The Kabbalah Unveiled, S.L. MacGregor Mathers

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' late 19th century English

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 translation of The Kabbalah Denudata, itself a Latin

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 translation by Christian Knorr von Rosenroth

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 of the Zohar

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, a primary Kabbalistic text.

This table has been used as a primary reference for a basic understanding of the Hebrew alphabet

Hebrew alphabet

The Hebrew alphabet , known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, or more historically, the Assyrian script, is used in the writing of the Hebrew language, as well as other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. There have been two...

 as it applies to the Kabbalah

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, generally outside of traditional Jewish mysticism, by many modern Hermeticists

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 and students of the occult

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, including members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

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 and other magical fraternities

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 deriving from it. It has been reproduced and adapted in many books published from the early 20th century to the present.

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TABLE OF HEBREW AND CHALDEE LETTERS
Number	Sound or Power	Hebrew and Chaldee Letters			Numerical Values		Roman character by which expressed	Names	Signification of Names
1.	a (soft breathing).	א			1.	(Thousands are  denoted by a  larger letter;  thus an Aleph  larger than the  rest of the let-  ters among  which it is,  signifies not 1,  but 1000.)	A.	Aleph.	Ox.
2.	b, bh (v).	ב			2.		B.	Beth.	House.
3.	g (hard), gh.	ג			3.		G.	Gimel.	Camel.
4.	d, dh (flat th).	ד			4.		D.	Daleth.	Door.
5.	h (rough breathing).	ה			5.		H.	He.	Window.
6.	v, u, o.	ו			6.		V.	Vau.	Peg, nail.
7.	z, dz.	ז			7.		Z.	Zayin.	Weapon, sword.
8.	ch (guttural).	ח			8.		CH.	Cheth.	Enclosure, fence.
9.	t (strong).	ט			9.		T.	Teth.	Serpent.
10.	i, y (as in yes).	י			10.		I.	Yod.	Hand.
11.	k, kh.	כ	Final =	ך	20.	Final = 500	K.	Caph.	Palm of the hand.
12.	l.	ל			30.		L.	Lamed.	Ox-goad.
13.	m.	מ	Final =	ם	40.	Final = 600	M.	Mem.	Water.
14.	n.	נ	Final =	ן	50.	Final = 700	N.	Nun.	Fish.
15.	s.	ס			60.		S.	Samekh.	Prop, support.
16.	O, aa, ng (gutt.).	ע			70.		O.	Ayin.	Eye.
17.	p, ph.	פ	Final =	ף	80.	Final = 800	P.	Pe.	Mouth.
18.	ts, tz, j.	צ	Final =	ץ	90.	Final = 900	TZ.	Tzaddi.	Fishing-hook.
19.	q, qh (guttur.).	ק			100.	(The finals are not  always considered  as bearing an in-  creased numeri-  cal value.)	Q.	Qoph.	Back of the head.
20.	r.	ר			200.		R.	Resh.	Head.
21.	sh, s.	ש			300.		SH.	Shin.	Tooth.
22.	th, t.	ת			400.		TH.	Tau.	Sign of the cross.

See also

• Gematria
  Gematria
  Gematria or gimatria is a system of assigning numerical value to a word or phrase, in the belief that words or phrases with identical numerical values bear some relation to each other, or bear some relation to the number itself as it may apply to a person's age, the calendar year, or the like...
  
  
• Kabbalah
  Kabbalah
  Kabbalah/Kabala is a discipline and school of thought concerned with the esoteric aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. It was systematized in 11th-13th century Hachmei Provence and Spain, and again after the Expulsion from Spain, in 16th century Ottoman Palestine...
  
  
• Notaricon
• Mysticism
  Mysticism
  Mysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...
  
  
• Hebrew language
  Hebrew language
  Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
  
  
• Hebrew alphabet
  Hebrew alphabet
  The Hebrew alphabet , known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, or more historically, the Assyrian script, is used in the writing of the Hebrew language, as well as other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. There have been two...
  
  

External links

• The Kabbalah Unveiled at www.sacred-texts.com