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
Iveta
Tap the letters of your name and add up its number yourself
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The number of your name
Iveta (איבטה) — Iveta is a name of Germanic origin. And the same number belongs to the Torah word בכה — “to weep”.
Your word in the Torah
The word בכה — “to weep” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:
ויפל על צוארי בנימן אחיו ויבך ובנימן בכה על צואריו
Genesis 45:14
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.
אל מקום המזבח אשר עשה שם בראשנה ויקרא שם אברם בשם ה׳
Genesis 13:4
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, א, and ends with the last, ה.
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
Torah portions with a word of number 27: 19 of 54
A word with the number 27 appears in 19 of the 54 weekly portions.
Fact. The letters of the name איבטה add up to 27. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.
Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — בכה (“to weep”). 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 (27).
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 איבטה. Iveta is a name of Germanic origin. It comes from the word “iwa”, which means “yew tree”. The name is used in Czechia and Slovakia. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 27 — the same as the Torah word בכה, “to weep”. That number points to Torah page 27 of 354 — in the portion Vayera. What that portion is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 13:4. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Iveta” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: איבטה. 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.
If you meant the name “Veta” (וטה), write it and I will calculate that one.
Adding up the letters of the name איבטה gives 27.
27
The number 27 is the Torah word בכה — «to weep» (Genesis 21:16).
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
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 and ordinal — 27. A Torah word with the same number is בכה — “to weep” (Genesis 21:16).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 119. A Torah word with the same number is מעט — “a little, few” (Genesis 18:4).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 211. A Torah word with the same number is ירא — “to fear” (Genesis 3:10).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 74. A Torah word with the same number is עד — “until, as far as” (Genesis 3:19).
The letters that come out are תמשנצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 880. A Torah word with the same number is פתת — “to break in pieces” (Leviticus 2:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 968.
The number 27 appears in the classical books 11 times across 9 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער העמידה (~1573).
The name איבטה 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 איבטה these are א and ה. The Pentateuch has 49 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 13:4:
אל מקום המזבח אשר עשה שם בראשנה ויקרא שם אברם בשם ה׳
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
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 — 27. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
«But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.»
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.