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How your name is written in the letters of the Torah

Your name in the Torah: in Hebrew letters, as a number, with the verse it lands on and the sources. Computed, not divined. Free.

Your name

בעודיליו

Tap the letters of your name and add up its number yourself

The number of your name

The number of your name is 138. The Torah word לקח — “to take” — has the same.

Your word in the Torah

The word לקח — “to take” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:

ויבן ה׳ אלהים את הצלע אשר לקח מן האדם לאשה ויבאה אל האדם

Genesis 2:22

The verse of your name

There is a sentence with which, by custom, a person answers when asked who they are.

Yours is this one.

בשנת שש מאות שנה לחיי נח בחדש השני בשבעה עשר יום לחדש ביום הזה נבקעו כל מעינת תהום רבה וארבת השמים נפתחו

Genesis 7:11

The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, ב, and ends with the last, ו.

The custom is written down in the Kitzur Shelah and in Sefer Ben Zion: “say it regularly and never forget it as long as you live.” The Rokeach gives the reason in Chochmat ha-Nefesh: a person is asked their name, and whoever does not remember cannot answer. The verse holds the name for them. Siddur ha-Rashban puts it more plainly: children were made to learn their verse by heart — so that if they were taken and forgot everything else, they would still know who they were.

The week you were born

Add your date of birth and we will show which portion the world was reading the week you appeared, and whether it holds a word of your number.

How rare this number is

Torah portions with a word of number 138: 41 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

Amichai Benicio Helek Huppim Justus Magdolna Menachem Publiy Syuzanna Tinatin

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name בעודיליו add up to 138. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — לקח (“to take”). A matching sum does not mean the word is 'about you'; it is a reason to look at what in it matters to you.

A question for yourself. What in this do you recognise in yourself — and what would you like to strengthen?

Practice. This week: open the verse of your name, read it slowly three times and write down one thought that stays with you.

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The nine numbers of your name

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The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 7 of the nine have a word of their own in the Torah. We showed one. The rest are in the full report.

A verse for what you need

Pick a theme — we show a Tanakh verse on it that contains a word with your name's number (138).

Our verse — for two

Type the name of someone close. We find the verse that begins with a letter of one name and ends with a letter of the other — your pair's verse.

My days of the year

The days when the number of the Hebrew date equals your name's number, and the Shabbat when the world reads the portion of your verse — straight into your phone's calendar.

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7 days with your verse

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בעודיליו

In short

Your name in Hebrew letters is בעודיליו. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 138 — the same as the Torah word לקח, “to take”. That number points to Torah page 138 of 354 — in the portion Terumah. What that portion is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 7:11. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.

Adding up the letters of the name בעודיליו gives 138.

138

The number 138 is the Torah word לקח — «to take» (Genesis 2:15).

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This number is shared with 3 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 138, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 138 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).

The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 27:16:

וּלְשַׁעַר הֶחָצֵר מָסָךְ עֶשְׂרִים אַמָּה תְּכֵלֶת וְאַרְגָּמָן וְתוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי וְשֵׁשׁ מָשְׁזָר מַעֲשֵׂה רֹקֵם עַמֻּדֵיהֶם אַרְבָּעָה וְאַדְנֵיהֶם אַרְבָּעָה

And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours: their pillars four, and their sockets four.

This is from the portion Terumah. What it is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar.

Other ways of counting

The tradition counts the same name in several ways. The main one is above: each letter is its number. The other eight are old and checkable too; each gives its own number, and many of them have a Torah word with the same number.

Final letters as 500–900 (mispar gadol) — 138. A Torah word with the same number is לקח — “to take” (Genesis 2:15).

Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “for, because, that” (Genesis 1:4).

Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 66. A Torah word with the same number is כמו — “like, as” (Genesis 19:15).

Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 595. A Torah word with the same number is התפקדו — “were numbered” (Numbers 1:47).

Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 6092.

Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 718. A Torah word with the same number is תקריבו — “you shall offer” (Leviticus 1:2).

The letters that come out are שזפקמכמפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 667. A Torah word with the same number is ביתהרן — “Beth-haran, town in Gad” (Numbers 32:36).

Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1114.

The number 138 appears in the classical books 17 times across 12 works. The earliest mention is כל בו (~1300).

The name בעודיליו does not stand as a word in the Pentateuch — as with most names, including many Tanakh names from the later books.

The verse of your name

There is a custom: at the end of the prayer one says a Torah verse that begins with the first letter of one's name and ends with its last. For בעודיליו these are ב and ו. The Pentateuch has 19 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:11:

בשנת שש מאות שנה לחיי נח בחדש השני בשבעה עשר יום לחדש ביום הזה נבקעו כל מעינת תהום רבה וארבת השמים נפתחו

This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.

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The full message

Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, day 861 of your life (±1), the psalm by age, the attestations from the classical books — a PDF sent to your email.

The number of the day, every morning

Every date has a number too. Once a year it will match the number of your name — 138. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.

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Your name's day

Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: בעודיליו = 138. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2026-12-0222 Kislev 5787in 39 days

The verse of that day

«And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours: their pillars four, and their sockets four.»

Shmot (Exodus) 27:16 · 138 / 354

Half of all names have such a day.

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How it is counted

Each Hebrew letter has a number; a word's number is their sum (alef 1 … tav 400). The page is the remainder modulo 354: the Torah divided into 354 pages of 861 letters, as the lunar year has 354 days. Everything can be checked by hand.

Binyamin Pichkhadze, «Chumash 354» (חומש 354), Bnei Brak, 2002 · Addition, not prophecy.

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0

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