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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.

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Your name

עובלדה

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The number of your name

The number of your name is 117. The Torah word אלוף — “chief” — has the same.

Your word in the Torah

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

אלה אלופי בני עשו בני אליפז בכור עשו אלוף תימן אלוף אומר אלוף צפו אלוף קנז
Genesis 36:15

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.

עד הגל הזה ועדה המצבה אם אני לא אעבר אליך את הגל הזה ואם אתה לא תעבר אלי את הגל הזה ואת המצבה הזאת לרעה
Genesis 31:52

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

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 117: 17 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

AbdielAkioAntoineBealiahCaioJeuelLeonelMadisonOlafOtoniel

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name עובלדה add up to 117. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — אלוף (“chief”). 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

117standard117with finals27reduced45ordinal479cumulative5881squares561building597atbash1068filling

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 (117).

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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עובלדה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is עובלדה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 117 — the same as the Torah word אלוף, “chief”. That number points to Torah page 117 of 354 — in the portion Beshalach. What that portion is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 31:52. 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 עובלדה gives 117.
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The number 117 is the Torah word אלוף — «chief» (Genesis 36:15).

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This number is shared with 6 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 117, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 117 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 15:1:
אָז יָשִׁיר־מֹשֶׁה וּבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת־הַשִּׁירָה הַזֹּאת לַה׳ וַיֹּאמְרוּ לֵאמֹר אָשִׁירָה לַה׳ כִּי־גָאֹה גָּאָה סוּס וְרֹכְבוֹ רָמָה בַיָּם
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto HaShem, and spoke, saying: I will sing unto HaShem, for He is highly exalted; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.
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) — 117. A Torah word with the same number is אלוף — “chief” (Genesis 36:15).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 27. A Torah word with the same number is בכה — “to weep” (Genesis 21:16).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 45. A Torah word with the same number is מה — “what” (Genesis 2:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 479. A Torah word with the same number is העדת — “the Testimony” (Exodus 16:34).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5881.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 561. A Torah word with the same number is תועפה — “strength, horns” (Numbers 23:22).
The letters that come out are זפשכקצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 597. A Torah word with the same number is תאספון — “you shall continue” (Exodus 5:7).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1068.
The number 117 appears in the classical books 9 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The name עובלדה 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 עובלדה these are ע and ה. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 31:52:
עד הגל הזה ועדה המצבה אם אני לא אעבר אליך את הגל הזה ואם אתה לא תעבר אלי את הגל הזה ואת המצבה הזאת לרעה
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
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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 — 117. 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: עובלדה = 117. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2026-11-111 Kislev 5787in 18 days
The verse of that day

אָז יָשִׁיר־מֹשֶׁה וּבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת־הַשִּׁירָה הַזֹּאת לַה׳ וַיֹּאמְרוּ לֵאמֹר אָשִׁירָה לַה׳ כִּי־גָאֹה גָּאָה סוּס וְרֹכְבוֹ רָמָה בַיָּם

«Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto HaShem, and spoke, saying: I will sing unto HaShem, for He is highly exalted; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.»

Shmot (Exodus) 15:1 · 117 / 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.

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