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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.

Your name

Lekh

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The number of your name

Lekh (לח) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 1 time. First in Genesis 30:37.

Lekh (לח) — In Hebrew letters the name is spelled like the Tanakh word “fresh” (Genesis 30:37).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word גלה — “to uncover”.

Your word in the Torah

The word גלה — “to uncover” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:

ואיש אשר ישכב את אשת אביו ערות אביו גלה מות יומתו שניהם דמיהם בם

Leviticus 20:11

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.

לא תרצח

Exodus 20:13

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

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 38: 13 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

Adbeel Alba Davudbay Gala Gehazi Uel

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name לח add up to 38. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — גלה (“to uncover”). 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

38standard38with finals11reduced20ordinal141cumulative964squares68building80atbash492filling

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 (38).

Our verse — for two

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My days of the year

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לח

In short

Your name in Hebrew letters is לח. In Hebrew letters the name is spelled like the Tanakh word “fresh” (Genesis 30:37). This is a shared spelling, not the origin of the name. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 38 — the same as the Torah word גלה, “to uncover”. That number points to Torah page 38 of 354 — in the portion Chayei Sarah. What that portion is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 20:13. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.

You wrote “Lekh” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: לח. 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 “Leah” (לאה), write it and I will calculate that one.

Adding up the letters of the name לח gives 38.

The number 38 is the Torah word גלה — «to uncover» (Genesis 9:21).

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

The number 38, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 38 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis).

The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 24:48:

וָאֶקֹּד וָאֶשְׁתַּחֲוֶה לַה׳ וָאֲבָרֵךְ אֶת־ה׳ אֱלֹהֵי אֲדֹנִי אַבְרָהָם אֲשֶׁר הִנְחַנִי בְּדֶרֶךְ אֱמֶת לָקַחַת אֶת־בַּת־אֲחִי אֲדֹנִי לִבְנוֹ

And I bowed my head, and prostrated myself before HaShem, and blessed HaShem, the G-d of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.

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) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to uncover” (Genesis 9:21).

Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).

Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).

Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 141. A Torah word with the same number is צאן — “flock, sheep” (Genesis 4:2).

Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 964.

Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 68. A Torah word with the same number is חלל — “to begin” (Genesis 4:26).

The letters that come out are כס — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 80. A Torah word with the same number is עוד — “again, still” (Genesis 4:25).

Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 492. A Torah word with the same number is סבלת — “burdens” (Exodus 6:6).

The number 38 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is ליקוטי שושנים (שמשון מאוסטרופולי) (~1640).

The name לח appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 30:37.

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 לח these are ל and ח. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 20:13:

לא תרצח

This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.

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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 — 38. 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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Your name's day

The name לח has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 38 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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