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.
The number of your name is 116. The Torah word נוס — “to flit, i.e. vanish away” — has the same.
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.
אלה בני אצר בלהן וזעון ועקן
Genesis 36:27
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, א, and ends with the last, נ.
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
A word with the number 116 appears in 25 of the 54 weekly portions.
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.
Anton — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
אנטון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אנטון. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 116 — the same as the Torah word נוס, “to flit, i.e. vanish away”. That number points to Torah page 116 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 36:27. 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 אנטון gives 116.
116
The number 116 is the Torah word נוס — «to flit, i.e. vanish away» (Genesis 14:10).
The number 116, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 116 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
כי אני יהוה בהכבדי בפרעה ברכבו ובפרשיו ויסע …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 14:18:
וְיָדְעוּ מִצְרַיִם כִּי־אֲנִי ה׳ בְּהִכָּבְדִי בְּפַרְעֹה בְּרִכְבּוֹ וּבְפָרָשָׁיו
And the Egyptians shall know that I am HaShem, when I have gotten Me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.'
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.
The same number, 116, is given by these biblical names:
סנאה · פול · כליון · כסלו
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) — 766.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 26.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 44. A Torah word with the same number is ילד — “to bear young” (Genesis 3:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 457. A Torah word with the same number is אתון — “a female donkey” (Genesis 12:16).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5118.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 294. A Torah word with the same number is ארגמן — “purple” (Exodus 25:4).
The word that comes out is תטנפט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 548. A Torah word with the same number is מחצית — “a halving or the middle” (Exodus 30:13).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 754.
The number 116 appears in the classical books 20 times across 15 works. The earliest mention is דרושי שער הכוונות (~1573).
The name אנטון 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 אנטון these are א and נ. The Pentateuch has 35 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 36:27:
אלה בני אצר בלהן וזעון ועקן
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
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.