Ancient Hebrew had no separate numbers; each letter of the Hebrew alphabet was associated with a number. This gave rise to the concept that every word or phrase had a number associated with it. This concept evolved into our current systems of numerology. There are two basic systems of numerology we will deal with here: Pythagorean, and Kabalistic.

The following table is used to assigning numerical values to the letters of the alphabet using the Pythagorean system:

Using this system, the numerical equivalent for the word "Friendship" is derived as follows:

6+3 = 9

As you can see, when the total for a word is greater than 9, the digits are summed to get a single digit result. This is known as Theosophical Reduction.

A system based on Kabalistic equivalences is based on the following:

1. =a,j,i,y.
2. =b,c,k,r,q. (The 'c' is hard, as in the word 'cat'.)
3. =g,l,s,ch,sh. (The 's' sounds like 'SH', as in the word 'sugar'.)
4. =d,m,t.
5. =e,n,h.
6. =s,u,v,w,c. (The 's' sounds like that in 'sea'; the 'c' sounds like that in 'cent'.)
7. =o,z,s,x. (The 's' sounds like 'z', as in scissors; the 'x' also sounds like 'z', as in 'xylophone'.)
8. =p,f,x,h. (The 'h' sounds like the German 'ach' -- rare in English.)
9. =th,tt,s. (This is an 's' that comes before a 'w', as in 'switch'.)

Using this system, the value of "friendship" is 1, calculated as follows:

3+7 = 10

1+0 = 1