{"id":35512,"date":"2022-03-17T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35512"},"modified":"2022-03-17T20:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T01:26:51","slug":"word-of-the-day-778","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/17\/word-of-the-day-778\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Gematria<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Gematria<\/b>\u00a0(<span class=\"rt-commentedText nowrap\"><span class=\"IPA nopopups noexcerpt\"><a title=\"Help:IPA\/English\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:IPA\/English\">\/<span title=\"\/\u0261\/: 'g' in 'guy'\">\u0261<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259\/: 'a' in 'about'\">\u0259<\/span><span title=\"\/\u02c8\/: primary stress follows\">\u02c8<\/span><span title=\"'m' in 'my'\">m<\/span><span title=\"\/e\u026a\/: 'a' in 'face'\">e\u026a<\/span><span title=\"'t' in 'tie'\">t<\/span><span title=\"'r' in 'rye'\">r<\/span><span title=\"\/i\/: 'y' in 'happy'\">i<\/span><span title=\"\/\u0259\/: 'a' in 'about'\">\u0259<\/span>\/<\/a><\/span><\/span>;\u00a0<a title=\"Hebrew language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hebrew_language\">Hebrew<\/a>:\u00a0<span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"he\">\u05d2\u05de\u05d8\u05e8\u05d9\u05d0<\/span>\u00a0or gimatria\u00a0<span title=\"Hebrew-language text\"><span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"he\">\u05d2\u05d9\u05de\u05d8\u05e8\u05d9\u05d4<\/span><\/span>, plural\u00a0<span title=\"Hebrew-language text\"><span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"he\">\u05d2\u05de\u05d8\u05e8\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea<\/span><\/span>\u00a0or\u00a0<span title=\"Hebrew-language text\"><span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"he\">\u05d2\u05d9\u05de\u05d8\u05e8\u05d9\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<i>gimatriot<\/i>)<sup id=\"cite_ref-JE_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0is the practice of assigning a\u00a0<a title=\"Number\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Number\">numerical value<\/a>\u00a0to a name, word or phrase according to an alphanumerical\u00a0<a title=\"Cipher\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cipher\">cipher<\/a>. A single word can yield several values depending on the cipher which is used.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gematria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/coronavirus-covid-19-conspiracy-theory-trucker-convoy-see-sheep-surrender-1688084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Trucker Convoy Protester Spouts Wild COVID Conspiracy Theory in Viral Video<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Gerrard Kaonga, <strong><em>Newsweek<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She insisted that COVID-19 was a coded message for &#8220;see sheep surrender,&#8221; a conspiracy theory that was already debunked by a Reuters fact-check report in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it came out it was &#8216;corona&#8217; right?&#8221; the woman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Corona is six letters, when you use gematria and say A is 1, B is 2, C is 3 and you put Corona lined up is 6-6. So that is 6-6-6.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dreadful incoherence. I wonder if <em>gematria<\/em> is related to <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/23\/word-of-the-day-99\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>pareidolia<\/em><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gematria: Gematria\u00a0(\/\u0261\u0259\u02c8me\u026atri\u0259\/;\u00a0Hebrew:\u00a0\u05d2\u05de\u05d8\u05e8\u05d9\u05d0\u00a0or gimatria\u00a0\u05d2\u05d9\u05de\u05d8\u05e8\u05d9\u05d4, plural\u00a0\u05d2\u05de\u05d8\u05e8\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea\u00a0or\u00a0\u05d2\u05d9\u05de\u05d8\u05e8\u05d9\u05d0\u05d5\u05ea,\u00a0gimatriot)\u00a0is the practice of assigning a\u00a0numerical value\u00a0to a name, word or phrase according to an alphanumerical\u00a0cipher. A single word can yield several values depending on the cipher which is used. [Wikipedia] Noted in &#8220;Trucker Convoy Protester Spouts Wild COVID Conspiracy Theory in Viral Video,&#8221; Gerrard Kaonga, Newsweek: \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/17\/word-of-the-day-778\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35513,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35512\/revisions\/35513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}