Hebrew does not have a number system apart from the alphabet. Each letter is also a number. The first 22 letters are the alphabet. The last six are final form letters used when the associated letter is found at the end of a word. Though a final form letter sounds like a customary letter, it's metaphor is different, since the stroke which form the meaning are different.

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=The names of the letters=

Each letter not only has a symbol and a number, but it has a word which is it's name. The ''aleph'' has the symbol א and the name אלף. Since the name is a word, it also may have different meanings. ''Aleph'' אלף means 'one thousand'. Jesus and the apostles sometimes play with the name, such as "A day is like a thousand years." <ref> 2Pe 3:8 ¶ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.</ref> There are also references to the number of a name <ref>Re 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.</ref> The number of the name of a letter is derived by reading the letters in the name as numbers. ''Aleph'' would be 1+30+800. Not many references to these have been found yet <ref>This hermeneutic has only recently been discovered.</ref>