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
You did not choose your name. It was given — almost always after someone who came before you.
Amos (עמוס) — “Burden-bearer.” The shepherd from Tekoa, prophet of justice (Amos).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word פוץ — “to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively”.
176 and 176.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ע and ends with ס. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — we count only the Torah so far.
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
A word with the number 176 appears in 10 of the 54 weekly portions. That is a rare number: most numbers appear more often.
You are not alone in this number
The same number belongs to these names:
What is left
We counted your name in one system. There are nine, and they give nine different numbers. When several systems lead to the same portion, the tradition reads that theme as strong. So far you have one.
Below — how this was counted, letter by letter.
Amos — A name of biblical origin — its biblical spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
עמוס
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is עמוס. “Burden-bearer.” The shepherd from Tekoa, prophet of justice (Amos). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 176 — the same as the Torah word פוץ, “to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively”. That number points to Torah page 176 of 354 — in the portion Tzav. What that portion is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name עמוס gives 176.
176
The number 176 is the Torah word פוץ — «to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively» (Genesis 10:18).
The number 176, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 176 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
אתם מאת בני ישראל חקת עולם לדרתם זאת …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 7:36:
אֲשֶׁר צִוָּה ה׳ לָתֵת לָהֶם בְּיוֹם מָשְׁחוֹ אֹתָם מֵאֵת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל חֻקַּת עוֹלָם לְדֹרֹתָם
which HaShem commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that they were anointed. It is a due for ever throughout their generations.
This is from the portion Tzav. What it is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons.
The same number, 176, is given by these biblical names:
עמינדב · עמוס · יויקים · צוף
Nine 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) — 176. A Torah word with the same number is פוץ — “to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively” (Genesis 10:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 50. A Torah word with the same number is כל — “the whole” (Genesis 1:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 746.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 10136.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 472. A Torah word with the same number is עבת — “something intwined, i.e. a string, wreath or…” (Exodus 28:14).
The word that comes out is זיפח. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 105. A Torah word with the same number is עלה — “to ascend, intransitively” (Genesis 2:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 342. A Torah word with the same number is בשם — “fragrance” (Exodus 25:6).
The number 176 appears in the classical books 8 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~1573).
The name עמוס 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 no verse in the Pentateuch that begins with ע and ends with ס. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.