Talk:Hebrew numerals

message: The Arabs did not invent the Arabic numerals, but instead the Hebrews did. The Hebrews decided to not use the number system that we use today except to express big numbers like 19,372, which could not be expressed in Hebrew numerals.
I don't believe it's true. If it is, please provide some kind of reference. -- uriber 22:03, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Interesting fact''

message: Sorry, though it is true the Arabs did not invent what we now call Arabic numerals, they brought them from India, the place where they were invented.  There is no reason to believe that these numerals were invented by any other people, Hebrew or otherwise.
Furthermore, the Hebrew numerals can be used to express numbers over 1,000.
Cbdorsett 07:41, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic numerals 

message: I don't know how to do Hebrew fonts here, so I can't just fix it, but the article has the Hebrew spelling of achat for echad.
Can someone with better Hebrew skills than I have check the nikkud in the table.  It seems to differ from what I'm used to.  echad as noted above, but others too. Another example is shlosha, which I believe is spelled (hebrew male) with out the vav, i.e. שְׁלשָׁה
Thanks Bjskelly (talk) 17:01, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misspelling of echad 

message: I found was that only echad/achas was correct (between א-י)
I took the most easy route simply switching column names and giving the numbers a check over, if any one wants to have femenim (which is really nice).
sources I based this on was:
Ben-Yehuda's pocket English-Hebrew, Hebrew-Enlish Dictionary, 
And also Mordern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar,  blambi (talk) 13:13, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some cardinal numerals had the wrong gender 

message: There are a few places in this article that are incomplete or have been carelessly coded, as in the "Key exceptions" section. Some but not all of these instances appear to be related to the text direction switch when Hebrew type is introduced, as parentheses do not match (for instance the ends of the first two paragraphs in the "Gershayim" section). Satkomuni (talk) 07:11, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Several incomplete sentences 

message: 1,000,000,000,000 in Hebrew is called billion, not trillion. I know this confuses Americans, but it is the proper Hebrew usage, based on Continental (European) usage rather than American. Thus 1,000,000 is million, 1,000 million is milliard; 1,000,000,000,000 is billion, 1000 billion is billiard; 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 is trillion, etc. This should be fixed in the article. Nahum (talk) 11:11, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: So fix it. ;) --Scimonster (talk) 13:36, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

text: A 2013 decision by the Academy of the Hebrew Language said that, no, you're wrong, it's like the American system except for 1,000,000,000, which is a milliard. Glide08 (talk) 00:05, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  1,000,000,000,000 in Hebrew 

message: In the opening section, it says "The later hundreds (500, 600, 700, 800 and 900) are represented by the sum of two or three letters representing the first four hundreds"  contradicts the information in the table which suggests that the sofit letters are used instead.  If you know which is correct, would you kindly fix it? Thank you! Linda  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lhutjens (talk • contribs) 14:35, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numerals 500 to 900 

message: So what's eg. 21? Or 121? Which gender, how are the words combined etc.
IMHO, this ought to be clarified with at least one example for each given.
-- 2003:C0:13CA:B7CC:7510:4873:DEBF:DD83 (talk) 20:59, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past "20, gender does not apply" 

message: I'm questioning this statement at the beginning: "The system was adapted from that of the Greek numerals in the late 2nd century BC." 
Numerals are found in Genesis which was written about 1513, isn't that right?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biotech99 (talk • contribs) 15:52, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Hebrew numerals 

message: Most of the Ordinals and Cardinals have resemblance. 
But Ordinal "first" (rishon, rishona) doesn't resemble Cardinal "one" (echad, achat). 
The word "first" in Genesis 1:5 appears to be "ehad" which is closer to echad and achat.
Please see http://biblehub.com/interlinear/genesis/1.htm.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biotech99 (talk • contribs) 15:58, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ordinal for "first" doesn't resemble Cardinal for "one" 

message: Given that this article covers a topic that is of significance to both academic scholars, and primarily Jewish individuals, should not the dating reflect the more neutral and scholarly BCE rather than the current BC? BibleScholar (talk) 14:38, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  BC to BCE 

message: Article could use a segment on how fractions are pronounced. Like: 3⅓, €2.5, … -- 95.90.221.93 (talk) 23:41, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs fractions 

message: How is the number 6001 written in Hebrew numerals? —Etewilak (talk) 02:39, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  6001 in Hebrew numerals 

message: The Unicode Standard chapter on Hebrew mentions the following in the section titled Puncta Extraordinaria:
Given that it says number dots should be represented using U+0307 and U+0308, we should replace the text
by the text
--Moyogo/ (talk) 13:23, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number dots or puncta 

message: The image has left/right reversed, for example the Hebrew letter Gimmel is on the left, should be on the right in the 3:00 position. 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hohe_Synagoge_Prag_1.jpg
I left this same note under the contributor's "talk" page. 2603:8080:C940:120:48C5:C244:91F4:BEB0 (talk) 00:00, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hebrew Clock from Prague 

message: I think some of these are in the wrong column. 2604:3D09:CD83:3500:580:7120:307C:B968 (talk) 02:03, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Masculine and Feminine numbers