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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.

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Your name

Keri

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The number of your name

Keri (קרי) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 3 times. First in Leviticus 26:21.

Your word in the Torah

The word חשב — “to reckon, think” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:

ואת המשכן תעשה עשר יריעת שש משזר ותכלת וארגמן ותלעת שני כרבים מעשה חשב תעשה אתם
Exodus 26:1

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.

קומת הכרוב האחד עשר באמה וכן הכרוב השני
1 Kings 6:26

The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, ק, and ends with the last, י.

The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ק and ends with י. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — and there it is: 1 Kings 6:26.

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 310: 37 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

ArtakBorislavCarmenCyrilDarkoFleurIzriKirMaxenceMercy

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name קרי add up to 310. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — חשב (“to reckon, think”). 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.

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The nine numbers of your name

310standard310with finals4reduced49ordinal1445cumulative50100squares710building47atbash716filling

The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 7 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 (310).

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.

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7 days with your verse

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קרי

Spelling attested: this is how the name is recorded in the open Wikidata name base.

In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is קרי. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 310 — the same as the Torah word חשב, “to reckon, think”. That number points to Torah page 310 of 354 — in the portion Eikev. What that portion is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is 1 Kings 6:26. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Keri” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: קרי. 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 קרי gives 310.
310
The number 310 is the Torah word חשב — «to reckon, think» (Genesis 15:6).

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This number is shared with 14 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 310, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 310 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy).
The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 9:10:
וַיִּתֵּן ה׳ אֵלַי אֶת־שְׁנֵי לוּחֹת הָאֲבָנִים כְּתֻבִים בְּאֶצְבַּע אֱלֹהִים וַעֲלֵיהֶם כְּכָל־הַדְּבָרִים אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר ה׳ עִמָּכֶם בָּהָר מִתּוֹךְ הָאֵשׁ בְּיוֹם הַקָּהָל
And HaShem delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of G-d; and on them was written according to all the words, which HaShem spoke with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
This is from the portion Eikev. What it is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema.
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) — 310. A Torah word with the same number is חשב — “to reckon, think” (Genesis 15:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 4. A Torah word with the same number is אבא — “I will come” (Genesis 33:14).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 49. A Torah word with the same number is מואב — “Moab, son of Lot” (Genesis 19:37).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1445.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 50100.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 710. A Torah word with the same number is שית — “to put, set” (Genesis 3:15).
The letters that come out are דגמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “perhaps” (Genesis 16:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 716. A Torah word with the same number is ושתי — “and two” (Genesis 19:30).
The number 310 appears in the classical books 27 times across 16 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name קרי appears in the Torah as a word 3 times. The first time is Leviticus 26:21. Another 4 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ק and ends with י. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 16 such verses. The first of them is 1 Kings 6:26:
קומת הכרוב האחד עשר באמה וכן הכרוב השני
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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 — 310. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
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This name can also be written in Hebrew differently. Click a variant to recompute:
כרי 230
A verse whose whole sum equals your name

גד גדוד יגודנו והוא יגד עקב

Genesis 49:19 · 22 letters in the verse

All the letters of this verse add up to 310 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.

Your name's day

The name קרי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 310 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.

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