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 79. The Torah word עדה — “a stated assemblage” — has the same.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ב and ends with ז. 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 79 appears in 35 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.
Boaz — 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.
בעז
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בעז. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 79 — the same as the Torah word עדה, “a stated assemblage”. That number points to Torah page 79 of 354 — in the portion Miketz. What that portion is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack. 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 בעז gives 79.
79
The number 79 is the Torah word עדה — «a stated assemblage» (Exodus 12:3).
The number 79, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 79 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
יצאו את העיר לא הרחיקו ויוסף אמר לאשר …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 44:4:
הֵם יָצְאוּ אֶת־הָעִיר לֹא הִרְחִיקוּ וְיוֹסֵף אָמַר לַאֲשֶׁר עַל־בֵּיתוֹ קוּם רְדֹף אַחֲרֵי הָאֲנָשִׁים וְהִשַּׂגְתָּם וְאָמַרְתָּ אֲלֵהֶם לָמָּה שִׁלַּמְתֶּם רָעָה תַּחַת טוֹבָה
And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward: 'Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them: Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
This is from the portion Miketz. What it is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack.
The same number, 79, is given by these biblical names:
בעז · עוג · עדה · דלילה
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) — 79. A Torah word with the same number is עדה — “a stated assemblage” (Exodus 12:3).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 25. A Torah word with the same number is כה — “like this, i.e. by implication” (Genesis 15:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 356. A Torah word with the same number is פעור — “Peor, a mountain East of Jordan” (Numbers 23:28).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4953.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 153. A Torah word with the same number is פגע — “to impinge, by accident or violence, or” (Genesis 23:8).
The word that comes out is שזע. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 377. A Torah word with the same number is שמאול — “dark” (Genesis 13:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 609. A Torah word with the same number is תחרא — “a linen corslet” (Exodus 28:32).
The number 79 appears in the classical books 7 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name בעז 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 ב and ends with ז. 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.