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Appendix 10 Atbash Cipher
The Atbash Cipher is an old cipher used in the book of the
Prophet Jeremiah based on the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew
Alphabet. 1465 The cipher is applied by substituting the first letter of the
Hebrew Alphabet aleph with the last letter tav, the second letter beth by
the penultimate letter shin, and so on.
The new word that results from the encryption is equivalent to the
original word. It is very easy for the person employing the cipher to
create new words since the new word only has consonants like its
originating word. This is because the Hebrew Alphabet is composed of
twenty-two consonants and excludes vowels.
Hebrew
Letter Name
English
Letter Equivalent
Aleph (silent) Tav A Th
Beth (B/V) Shin B Sh
Gimel Resh G R
Dalet Qof D Q
He Tsadeh H Tz
Vav (V) Feh W P
Zayin Ayin (silent) Z O
Chet Samech Ch S
Tet Nun T N
Yod Mem Y M
Kaph (K/Kh) Lamed K L
The Atbash cipher converts Babel (BBL),
meaning Babylon, to Shishak (ShShK). 1466 This is
achieved by substituting Beth, Beth and Lamed with
Shin, Shin and Kaph respectively.
A second Atbash method is cyclic rotation
with the alphabet as an endless loop. This is an
example of a cipher-wheel or alphabet clock. A
particular output letter is found by moving either
clockwise or anti-clockwise a certain number of steps from the input
letter. Another numerical sequence such as six, six, six or eight, ten,
twelve, fourteen is provided from other information. This indicates the
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