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.
Isaac (יצחק) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 74 times. First in Genesis 17:17.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with י and ends with ק. 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 208 appears in 35 of the 54 weekly portions.
You are not alone in this number
The same number belongs to these names:
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.
Isaac — 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.
יצחק
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יצחק. From the root “to laugh”: Sarah laughed when she heard the promise of a son (Genesis 18:12; 21:6). Isaac is the second patriarch, son of Abraham and Sarah. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 208 — the same as the Torah word יצחק, “Jitschak”. That number points to Torah page 208 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. 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 יצחק gives 208.
208
The number 208 is the Torah word יצחק — «Jitschak» (Genesis 17:19).
The number 208, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 208 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus). These are its opening words:
הראשון שבתון וביום השמיני שבתון ולקחתם לכם ביום …
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 23:39:
אַךְ בַּחֲמִשָּׁה עָשָׂר יוֹם לַחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי בְּאָסְפְּכֶם אֶת־תְּבוּאַת הָאָרֶץ תָּחֹגּוּ אֶת־חַג־ה׳ שִׁבְעַת יָמִים בַּיּוֹם הָרִאשׁוֹן שַׁבָּתוֹן וּבַיּוֹם הַשְּׁמִינִי שַׁבָּתוֹן
Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of HaShem seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
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.
The same number, 208, is given by these biblical names:
יצחק · פינחס · הגר · בור
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) — 208. A Torah word with the same number is יצחק — “Jitschak” (Genesis 17:19).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “a foreign nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1181.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 18264.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 426. A Torah word with the same number is תוך — “a bisection, i.e.” (Genesis 1:6).
The word that comes out is מהסד. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 109. A Torah word with the same number is צידה — “food” (Genesis 27:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 728.
The number 208 appears in the classical books 49 times across 20 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name יצחק appears in the Torah as a word 74 times. The first time is Genesis 17:17. Another 26 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
The verse of your name
There is no verse in the Pentateuch that begins with י and ends with ק. 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.