Sethomas -- Gematria

[kahljorn]

My point is that words can be associated with a number without a symbol. Like saying "Six", you don't need to be able to write it to say it... children learn to speak before they learn to write. And in the case of hebrew, since ALEPH is both One and A(kind of like english when you say something like, "A apple"). Besides, i think before the actually writ symbol they used stuff like pictographs, and egyptian stuff. I was just wondering if you had any resources on it that I didn't.
The best ive found is that Gematria was supposively borrowed from the greeks, because the greek alphabet had the required amount of numbers while the hebrew alphabet didnt add the five extra required number/letters till later. Except you then find that the greeks got their idea of an alphabet from the Semites, since their original alphabet had 28 letters, while the supposed modern hebrew at the time only had 22. The problem with that is, well, define what the fuck a semite is and you can easily turn it into "Hebrew".
Oh, also, the only reason you need a total of 27 letters is because of the spectrum of numbers; 1-9 10-90 100-900. Except nobody uses the final form(the final five numbers that were added) in gematria, so that point is moot, and the entire argument collapses.
Besides that, greek people have a thing with being recognized as "Special". LOOK WE HAD PEOPLE LIKE PLATO AND SOCRATES, who we put to death for being too smart for us, because they learned from egypt not us.
The biggest question would be, what form of hebrew did they speak at the time of the writing of the torah? Anyway, im asking all this too some jewish scholar guy. The only problem is he's a stuck up arrogant prick like you, who doesn't really know all too much, just talks like he knows alot.

"Can you combine a few characters into a word that signifies a number?

Like "SIX" for example?"

No, A means one. There simply is no symbol for one except A.