Gematria originated as an Assyro-Babylonian-Greek system of alphanumeric code or cipher later adopted into Jewish culture that assigns numerical value to a word, name, 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 Nature, a person's age, the calendar year, or the like. A single word can yield multiple values depending on the system used (from wiki). We have had a few threads all about this recently, focusing on how many times a specific word or phrase is used in the Scriptures, or which chapter and verse number something can be found, and then assigning meaning to the relevance of the numbers, with special emphasis on the number 37 and others...