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.
Your name
Greg
Tap the letters of your name and add up its number yourself
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The number of your name
Greg (גרג) — Greg is a name of Greek origin. And the same number belongs to the Torah word דבר — “to speak”.
Your word in the Torah
The word דבר — “to speak” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:
וילך אברם כאשר דבר אליו ה׳ וילך אתו לוט ואברם בן חמש שנים ושבעים שנה בצאתו מחרן
Genesis 12:4
The verse of your name
Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with ג and ends with ג. 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 206: 50 of 54
A word with the number 206 appears in 50 of the 54 weekly portions. That is a common number — it is in most portions.
Fact. The letters of the name גרג add up to 206. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.
Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — דבר (“to speak”). 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.
The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 8 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 (206).
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.
Every morning in Telegram — your verse, how to read it in Latin letters, and one new word. Half a minute a day. After seven days the verse stays with you.
Your name in Hebrew letters is גרג. Greg is a name of Greek origin. It comes from the word “gregoros”, which means “watchful”. The name is used in the United States and Britain. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 206 — the same as the Torah word דבר, “to speak”. That number points to Torah page 206 of 354 — in the portion Emor. What that portion is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Greg” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: גרג. Spelled by the Academy of the Hebrew Language rules for foreign names. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name גרג gives 206.
206
The number 206 is the Torah word דבר — «to speak» (Genesis 8:15).
And ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto HaShem seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
This is from the portion Emor. What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
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.
Final letters as 500–900 (mispar gadol) — 206. A Torah word with the same number is דבר — “to speak” (Genesis 8:15).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 8. A Torah word with the same number is אהב — “to love” (Genesis 22:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 26. A Torah word with the same number is והיה — “and it became” (Genesis 2:10).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 807. A Torah word with the same number is תאות — “utmost bound of” (Genesis 49:26).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40018.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 412. A Torah word with the same number is בית — “house” (Genesis 6:14).
The letters that come out are רגר — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 403. A Torah word with the same number is גרר — “Gerar, Philistine city” (Genesis 10:19).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 676. A Torah word with the same number is שלשום — “day before yesterday” (Genesis 31:2).
The number 206 appears in the classical books 6 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
The name גרג 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
Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with ג and ends with ג. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.
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 — 206. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
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.