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.
The number of your name is 111. The Torah word אלף — “hence” — has the same.
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.
לישועתך קויתי ה׳
Genesis 49:18
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, ל, 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
A word with the number 111 appears in 29 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.
Lucia — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
לוסיה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לוסיה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 111 — the same as the Torah word אלף, “hence”. That number points to Torah page 111 of 354 — in the portion Bo. What that portion is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:18. 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 לוסיה gives 111.
111
The number 111 is the Torah word אלף — «hence» (Genesis 20:16).
The number 111, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 111 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
לדרתיכם חקת עולם תחגהו שבעת ימים מצות תאכלו …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 12:14:
וְהָיָה הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה לָכֶם לְזִכָּרוֹן וְחַגֹּתֶם אֹתוֹ חַג לַה׳ לְדֹרֹתֵיכֶם חֻקַּת עוֹלָם תְּחָגֻּהוּ
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to HaShem; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
The same number, 111, is given by these biblical names:
יהויכין · דעואל · עלוה · קוה
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) — 111. A Torah word with the same number is אלף — “hence” (Genesis 20:16).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “a particle of affirmation, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 48. A Torah word with the same number is יובל — “the blast of a horn” (Exodus 19:13).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 451. A Torah word with the same number is ישמעאל — “Jishmael, the name of Abraham's oldest son, and…” (Genesis 16:11).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4661.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 379.
The word that comes out is כפחמצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 238. A Torah word with the same number is רחל — “Rachel, a wife of Jacob” (Genesis 29:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 232. A Torah word with the same number is בכרי — “a Bakrite” (Numbers 26:35).
The number 111 appears in the classical books 39 times across 24 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The name לוסיה 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 לוסיה these are ל and ה. The Pentateuch has 27 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:18:
לישועתך קויתי ה׳
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
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.