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.
Gideon (גדעון) — “Hewer.” The judge who defeated Midian with three hundred men (Judges 6–8).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word נגף — “to push, gore, defeat, stub”.
133 and 133.
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.
גוי עז פנים אשר לא ישא פנים לזקן ונער לא יחן
Deuteronomy 28:50
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, ג, 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 133 appears in 15 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.
Gideon — 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.
גדעון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גדעון. “Hewer.” The judge who defeated Midian with three hundred men (Judges 6–8). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 133 — the same as the Torah word נגף, “to push, gore, defeat, stub”. That number points to Torah page 133 of 354 — in the portion Terumah. What that portion is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 28:50. 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 גדעון gives 133.
133
The number 133 is the Torah word נגף — «to push, gore, defeat, stub» (Exodus 7:27).
The number 133, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 133 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
מקדש ושכנתי בתוכם ככל אשר אני מראה אותך …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 25:8:
וְעָשׂוּ לִי מִקְדָּשׁ וְשָׁכַנְתִּי בְּתוֹכָם
And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
This is from the portion Terumah. What it is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar.
The same number, 133, is given by these biblical names:
גדעון · נפג · זעון · עמיזבד
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) — 783.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 25. A Torah word with the same number is כה — “like this, i.e. by implication” (Genesis 15:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 43. A Torah word with the same number is גם — “assemblage” (Genesis 3:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 557. A Torah word with the same number is ראשון — “first, in place, time or rank” (Genesis 8:13).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 7461.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 303. A Torah word with the same number is שאב — “to bale up water” (Genesis 24:11).
The word that comes out is רקזפט. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 396. A Torah word with the same number is מכשול — “a stumbling-block, literally or figuratively” (Leviticus 19:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 765.
The number 133 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The name גדעון 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 גדעון these are ג and נ. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 28:50:
גוי עז פנים אשר לא ישא פנים לזקן ונער לא יחן
This is from the portion Ki Tavo. What it is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions.
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.