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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.
קתרין
Spelling attested: this is how the name is recorded in the open Wikidata name base.
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is קתרין. An English spelling of Katherine, from Greek Aikaterine. The meaning is not certain; it has long been linked with katharos, “pure”. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 760. That number points to Torah page 52 of 354 — in the portion Vayetzei. What that portion is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Joshua 15:60. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Kathryn” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: קתרין. 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 קתרין gives 760.
760
No other name in the index gives this number: it is one of 2,980.
The number 760, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 52 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis).
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 31:7:
וַאֲבִיכֶן הֵתֶל בִּי וְהֶחֱלִף אֶת־מַשְׂכֻּרְתִּי עֲשֶׂרֶת מֹנִים וְלֹא־נְתָנוֹ אֱלֹהִים לְהָרַע עִמָּדִי
And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but G-d suffered him not to hurt me.
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
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) — 1410.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 85. A Torah word with the same number is פה — “mouth” (Genesis 4:11).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3135.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 212600.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2770.
The letters that come out are דאגמט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 57. A Torah word with the same number is מזבח — “altar” (Genesis 8:20).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1228.
The number 760 appears in the classical books 10 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The name קתרין 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ק and ends with נ. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 9 such verses. The first of them is Joshua 15:60:
קרית בעל היא קרית יערים והרבה ערים שתים וחצריהן
The full message
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 — 760. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
This name can also be written in Hebrew differently. Click a variant to recompute:
Your name's day
The name קתרין has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 760 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
How it is counted
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.
Binyamin Pichkhadze, «Chumash 354» (חומש 354), Bnei Brak, 2002 · Addition, not prophecy.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0