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.
Egor (אגור) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 1 time. First in Deuteronomy 32:27.
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.
אדני שמעני ארץ ארבע מאת שקל כסף ביני ובינך מה הוא ואת מתך קבר
Genesis 23:15
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, א, and ends with the last, ר.
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 210 appears in 43 of the 54 weekly portions. That is a common number — it is in most 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.
Egor — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
אגור
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אגור. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 210 — the same as the Torah word דור, “a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation”. That number points to Torah page 210 of 354 — in the portion Behar. What that portion is about: “On the mountain”: the sabbatical year and the jubilee; the land is not sold forever; redemption of land and servants; the ban on interest. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 23:15. 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 אגור gives 210.
210
The number 210 is the Torah word דור — «a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation» (Genesis 6:9).
The number 210, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 210 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
וארבעים שנה והעברת שופר תרועה בחדש השבעי בעשור …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 25:8:
וְסָפַרְתָּ לְךָ שֶׁבַע שַׁבְּתֹת שָׁנִים שֶׁבַע שָׁנִים שֶׁבַע פְּעָמִים וְהָיוּ לְךָ יְמֵי שֶׁבַע שַׁבְּתֹת הַשָּׁנִים תֵּשַׁע וְאַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.
This is from the portion Behar. What it is about: “On the mountain”: the sabbatical year and the jubilee; the land is not sold forever; redemption of land and servants; the ban on interest.
The same number, 210, is given by these biblical names:
חרב · נעמן · גזר · רחב
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) — 210. A Torah word with the same number is דור — “a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation” (Genesis 6:9).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “she or it)” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “very widely used as a relative conjunction or…” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 823.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40046.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 225. A Torah word with the same number is כרה — “to dig” (Genesis 26:25).
The word that comes out is תרפג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 683.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 716.
The number 210 appears in the classical books 29 times across 21 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name אגור appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Deuteronomy 32:27.
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 אגור these are א and ר. The Pentateuch has 15 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 23:15:
אדני שמעני ארץ ארבע מאת שקל כסף ביני ובינך מה הוא ואת מתך קבר
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham'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.