I've improved the translation services available in the Esoteric Delights Gematria Database.  When you go to the database, you'll notice that I switched the order of the tools in the sliding tabs so that the "TRANSLATE" service is now at the top.  I've been analyzing the usage of the site to make improvements, and a major shortcoming that I found and corrected was that the call to the Babylon Online Dictionary was only really expecting a single word to be translated, but a lot of people are entering phrases into the translation and database searches.  I've corrected this to return results for all words entered, as shown below:

Another thing that I added was that in order to cast a wider net and help you find the closest translation possible, I've incorporated Google's Translation service that is made available through their Google Ajax API for Translation, which is totally awesome.  As demonstrated in the screenshot above, if Google has a translation for you, it will be provided at the bottom below the dictionary results.  This is also nice, because there may be times when the attempt to get a definition from Babylon doesn't return a result for whatever reason, but the Google result will - you can see this in the above example (notice there's no definition retrieved for "brave" in the Babylon section but the Google translation has all 3 words in a suggested translation). More...

Two quick updates about the Esoteric Delights Gematria Database:

1. It's way faster now. 
2. I added new database search functionality. 

The major improvement is in the responsiveness of the database and queries made of it.  For some reason the query response times were insanely slow, taking anywhere from 20-40 seconds (sometimes longer!) to do a simple number lookup.  I thought for some reason this was just how it had to be, but as it turns out, that's not true.  I've taken some steps to make the hosted database more attentive to the web site's needs, so now it's down to executing and returning the query results in a second or two.  Please let me know if you notice extremely long delays in processing your requests.  I've wired some alerts into the app to notify me if it's taking too long to server query results, but if you notice anything wacky, drop me a line.

In addition to being able to get English translations of Hebrew words and transliterating English into Hebrew characters, you can now search the text of the English translations that are stored inside the database directly.  This is a nice thing to have in conjunction with the translation service.  The translations are pretty "straight" in that they are coming from a standard Hebrew-English dictionary.  However, since the database contains words from other sources, some of which are more esoteric in nature, this gives you a second way to find things in the database specifically that may not be turned up in a standard dictionary.  The new database search shows up as the first panel and is labeled as "SEARCH the Gematria Database for Hebrew Words/Phrases by English Translation..."  This search function works more like a search engine and less like a normal database search in that it uses word stemming ("running" would also look for "run" and "ran") and will also look for words in a phrase, not just the word or phrase literally.

I hope you find these features/improvements useful!

I've just added some new functionality to the site: the Sigil Generator.  This is the same functional component that I used to generate the sigils used for the album artwork for the Pegataur album Eternal Flight.  To check it out, just select "Sigil Generator" from the navigation under Esoteric Tools.

The Sigil Generator requires that you input a Hebrew word or phrase.  You can use the Gematria Database page to lookup Hebrew words or transliterate English into Hebrew to use for the Sigil Generator.  I didn't bother with any obvious "export image" functionality, although I might do that later.  For now, if you want your sigil, just right-click (PC) or control-click (MAC, I think?) on the sigil and save from your browser.  If you don't want the colored background/lines, just uncheck the "Use Planetary Color Scales" box.

Enjoy!

I have made my gematria database available to you lovely people to use, here.  You can also get there at any time by clicking on the "Gematria Database" link in the navigation next to "Home."  I will be updating the functionality around the database over the coming months -- please read the overview and disclaimer for more information.

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that I've built the largest, free online gematria database -- almost 236k translations!

Two new web methods are available here. Follow the link for the (wsdl) service descriptions. More...