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.
Gad (גד) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 29 times. First in Genesis 30:11.
Gad (גד) — “Fortune, troop” (Genesis 30:11). Jacob’s seventh son; his tribe settled east of the Jordan.
And the same number belongs to the Torah word או — “desire”.
7 and 7.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ג and ends with ד. 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 7 appears in 24 of the 54 weekly portions.
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.
Gad — 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.
גד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גד. “Fortune, troop” (Genesis 30:11). Jacob’s seventh son; his tribe settled east of the Jordan. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 7 — the same as the Torah word או, “desire”. That number points to Torah page 7 of 354 — in the portion Bereshit. What that portion is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah. 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 גד gives 7.
7
The number 7 is the Torah word או — «desire» (Genesis 24:49).
The Sabbath is the seventh day; seven weeks to Shavuot; seven years to the sabbatical; seven days of a festival.
The number 7, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 7 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
קין לטש כל חרש נחשת וברזל ואחות תובל …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 4:22:
וְצִלָּה גַם־הִוא יָלְדָה אֶת־תּוּבַל קַיִן לֹטֵשׁ כָּל־חֹרֵשׁ נְחֹשֶׁת וּבַרְזֶל וַאֲחוֹת תּוּבַל־קַיִן נַעֲמָה
And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
The same number, 7, is given by these biblical names:
גד · אגג · בה
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) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “desire” (Genesis 24:49).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “desire” (Genesis 24:49).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “desire” (Genesis 24:49).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 25. A Torah word with the same number is כה — “like this, i.e. by implication” (Genesis 15:5).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “separate” (Numbers 23:9).
The word that comes out is רק. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 300. A Torah word with the same number is כפר — “to cover” (Genesis 6:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 517. A Torah word with the same number is אשורי — “an Ashurite” (Genesis 25:3).
The number 7 appears in the classical books 7 times across 6 works. The earliest mention is שער מאמרי רשב"י (~1573).
The name גד appears in the Torah as a word 29 times. The first time is Genesis 30:11. Another 3 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
The verse of your name
There is no verse in the Pentateuch that begins with ג and ends with ד. 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.