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Gimel: Hebrew letter forms and values
Identify Gimel ג, compare standard, ordinal and reduced-letter values, and check גן in its cited Hebrew source.
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| Form | Character | Unicode code point | Unicode 17.0 name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary Gimel | ג | U+05D2 | HEBREW LETTER GIMEL |
Gimel / Gimmel. Reading cue: g, as in go.
Gimel occupies the third alphabet position. The extra m in the English spelling Gimmel is a transliteration variation; the Hebrew letter is still one ג. It has no separate end-of-word form.
In גן, begin at the right with Gimel and move left to final Nun. This two-letter example separates two tasks: recognizing the starting letter and recognizing the final shape of a different letter. The final stroke belongs to Nun, not to a new form of Gimel.
One letter, three explicit values
| Standard | Ordinal | Reduced letters |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 3 |
Gimel’s value is 3 in all three columns. In גן, the second letter supplies the difference: final Nun keeps Nun’s standard 50, ordinal 14 and reduced 5. Compare the two contributions rather than assuming that a short word must have a low standard total.
גן: garden
Pointed source form: גַּן · reading cue: gan. Genesis 2:8 · Mechon Mamre.
The word is joined to the following phrase by a hyphen in this edition. The worked input is the cited word alone, with its final Nun retained.
| Reading position | Written letter | Base letter | Standard | Ordinal | Reduced letters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ג | ג | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | ן | נ | 50 | 14 | 5 |
| Word total | 53 | 17 | 8 | ||
Standard: 3 + 50 = 53 · Ordinal: 3 + 14 = 17 · Reduced letters: 3 + 5 = 8
Its group in the Gra version of Sefer Yetzirah
Gimel ג is among the seven doubles listed in Gra 4:1: בגדכפרת. Keep this textual classification distinct from the alphabet position and the arithmetic columns above.
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Sources, dates and conventions
Prepared by Mazalogy with AI assistance. Characters, source-word spellings and calculation rules were checked against the sources and the calculator on . Reading cues introduce the cited chart; pronunciation varies by community. Source attribution does not imply outside review or endorsement.
- Unicode 17.0 · Hebrew, section 9.1: direction, points and final forms
- Unicode 17.0 · NamesList: Hebrew character names and code points
- Chabad · The Hebrew Alphabet: letter chart, sounds and values
- GalEinai · Four Methods for Doing Gematria: distinguish counting conventions
- Sefer Yetzirah · Gra version 4:1, the seven doubles
- Mechon Mamre · Genesis 2:8, Hebrew text with JPS 1917 English
English reference edition. Numerical examples retain final forms and actual vowel letters while ignoring pronunciation marks. Final forms keep base-letter values in all three methods. Reduced letters are added without reducing the completed word total again.