page_title: Hebrew numerals
section_title: Numbers
hierarchical_section_title: Hebrew numerals / Numbers
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hohe Synagoge (Vysoká synagoga) Prag, Detail der Uhr (die Ziffern sind entgegen dem Uhrsinn angeordnet)
context_page_description: The system of Hebrew numerals is a quasi-decimal alphabetic numeral system using the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
  The system was adapted from that of the Greek numerals in the late 2nd century BCE.
  The current numeral system is also known as the Hebrew alphabetic numerals to contrast with earlier systems of writing numerals used in classical antiquity. These systems were inherited from usage in the Aramaic and Phoenician scripts, attested from c. 800 BC in the so-called Samaria ostraca and sometimes known as Hebrew-Aramaic numerals, ultimately derived from the Egyptian Hieratic numerals.
  The Greek system was adopted in Hellenistic Judaism and had been in use in Greece since about the 5th century BC.
  In this system, there is no notation for zero, and the numeric values for individual letters are added together. Each unit is assigned a separate letter, each tens a separate letter, and the first four hundreds a separate letter. The later hundreds are represented by the sum of two or three letters representing the first four hundreds. To represent numbers from 1,000 to 999,999, the same letters are reused to serve as thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands.
context_section_description: The Hebrew language has names for common numbers that range from zero to one million. Letters of the Hebrew alphabet are used to represent numbers in a few traditional contexts, for example in calendars. In other situations Arabic numerals are used. Cardinal and ordinal numbers must agree in gender with the noun they are describing. If there is no such noun (e.g. telephone numbers), the feminine form is used. For ordinal numbers greater than ten the cardinal is used and numbers above the value 20 have no gender.
caption: The lower clock on the Jewish Town Hall building in Prague, with Hebrew numerals in counterclockwise order.
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