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 43. The Torah word גם — “assemblage” — has the same.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ג and ends with ל. 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 43 appears in 27 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.
Gil — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
גיל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גיל. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 43 — the same as the Torah word גם, “assemblage”. That number points to Torah page 43 of 354 — in the portion Toldot. What that portion is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing. 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 גיל gives 43.
43
The number 43 is the Torah word גם — «assemblage» (Genesis 3:6).
The number 43, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 43 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
יהודית בת בארי החתי ואת בשמת בת אילן …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 26:34:
וַיְהִי עֵשָׂו בֶּן־אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה וַיִּקַּח אִשָּׁה אֶת־יְהוּדִית בַּת־בְּאֵרִי הַחִתִּי וְאֶת־בָּשְׂמַת בַּת־אֵילֹן הַחִתִּי
And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
This is from the portion Toldot. What it is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing.
The same number, 43, is given by these biblical names:
לוז · יחדיהו · איכבוד · ידידיה
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) — 43. A Torah word with the same number is גם — “assemblage” (Genesis 3:6).
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) — 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) — 166. A Torah word with the same number is עליון — “an elevation, i.e.” (Genesis 14:18).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1009.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 59.
The word that comes out is רמכ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 260. A Torah word with the same number is מכר — “to sell, literally” (Genesis 25:31).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 177. A Torah word with the same number is בקעה — “a split, i.e. a wide level valley between…” (Genesis 11:2).
The number 43 appears in the classical books 13 times across 13 works. The earliest mention is כל בו (~1300).
The name גיל 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 ג and ends with ל. 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.