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How your name is written in the letters of the Torah

Your name in the Torah: in Hebrew letters, as a number, with the verse it lands on and the sources. Computed, not divined. Free.

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Your name

Gazez

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The number of your name

Gazez (גזז) — A Tanakh name: name of two Israelites (first in 1 Chronicles 2:46; 2 mentions in the Tanakh).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word טוב — “good”.

Your word in the Torah

The word טוב — “good” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:

וירא אלהים את האור כי טוב ויבדל אלהים בין האור ובין החשך
Genesis 1:4

The verse of your name

Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with ג and ends with ז. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.

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

Torah portions with a word of number 17: 42 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

AzatDzhoEviGadiGogaOdoVaheYahavZebah

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name גזז add up to 17. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — טוב (“good”). A matching sum does not mean the word is 'about you'; it is a reason to look at what in it matters to you.

A question for yourself. What in this do you recognise in yourself — and what would you like to strengthen?

Practice. This week: open the verse of your name, read it slowly three times and write down one thought that stays with you.

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The nine numbers of your name

17standard17with finals17reduced17ordinal62cumulative107squares30building340atbash217filling

The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 9 of the nine have a word of their own in the Torah. We showed one. The rest are in the full report.

A verse for what you need

Pick a theme — we show a Tanakh verse on it that contains a word with your name's number (17).

Our verse — for two

Type the name of someone close. We find the verse that begins with a letter of one name and ends with a letter of the other — your pair's verse.

My days of the year

The days when the number of the Hebrew date equals your name's number, and the Shabbat when the world reads the portion of your verse — straight into your phone's calendar.

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7 days with your verse

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גזז
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גזז. A Tanakh name: name of two Israelites (first in 1 Chronicles 2:46; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “shearer”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 17 — the same as the Torah word טוב, “good”. That number points to Torah page 17 of 354 — in the portion Noach. What that portion is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Gazez” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: גזז. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name גזז gives 17.
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The number 17 is the Torah word טוב — «good» (Genesis 1:4).

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This number is shared with 1 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

Tov, “good”, is 17; Jacob's seventeen years in Egypt (Genesis 47:28).
The number 17, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 17 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis).
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 11:25:
וַיְחִי נָחוֹר אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־תֶּרַח תְּשַׁע־עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה וּמְאַת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנוֹת ס
And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
Other 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.
with finals, reduced and ordinal — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 62. A Torah word with the same number is בין — “between” (Genesis 1:4).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 107. A Torah word with the same number is גלעד — “Gilead, region east of Jordan” (Genesis 31:21).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “for, because, that” (Genesis 1:4).
The letters that come out are רעע — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 340. A Torah word with the same number is שם — “there” (Genesis 2:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 217. A Torah word with the same number is אורי — “Uri, father of Bezalel” (Exodus 31:2).
The number 17 appears in the classical books 52 times across 29 works. The earliest mention is ילקוט שמעוני (~1260).
The name גזז does not stand as a separate word in the Torah, but appears 1 time with prefixes — first in Genesis 31:19.
The verse of your name
Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with ג and ends with ז. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.
Name report — free for the first hundredName and date
The full message
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, day 861 of your life (±1), the psalm by age, the attestations from the classical books — a PDF sent to your email.
The number of the day, every morning
Every date has a number too. Once a year it will match the number of your name — 17. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
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Your name's day

Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: גזז = 17. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-08-1714 Av 5787in 297 days
The verse of that day

וַיְחִי נָחוֹר אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־תֶּרַח תְּשַׁע־עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה וּמְאַת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנוֹת ס

«And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.»

Bereshit (Genesis) 11:25 · 17 / 354

Half of all names have such a day.

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How it is counted

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.

Binyamin Pichkhadze, «Chumash 354» (חומש 354), Bnei Brak, 2002 · Addition, not prophecy.

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