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
Lukash
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The number of your name
Lukash (לוקש) — Lukáš is a name of Greek origin, from “Loukas”, which means “man from Lucania”. And the same number belongs to the Torah word שעטנז — “mixed wool and linen”.
Your word in the Torah
The word שעטנז — “mixed wool and linen” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:
את חקתי תשמרו בהמתך לא תרביע כלאים שדך לא תזרע כלאים ובגד כלאים שעטנז לא יעלה עליך
Leviticus 19:19
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.
לולי אלהי אבי אלהי אברהם ופחד יצחק היה לי כי עתה ריקם שלחתני את עניי ואת יגיע כפי ראה אלהים ויוכח אמש
Genesis 31:42
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, ל, and ends with the last, ש.
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 436: 13 of 54
A word with the number 436 appears in 13 of the 54 weekly portions.
Fact. The letters of the name לוקש add up to 436. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.
Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — שעטנז (“mixed wool and linen”). 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. 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 (436).
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 לוקש. Lukáš is a name of Greek origin, from “Loukas”, which means “man from Lucania”. It is the Czech and Slovak form of Luke; in Poland it is written Łukasz. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 436 — the same as the Torah word שעטנז, “mixed wool and linen”. That number points to Torah page 82 of 354 — in the portion Vayigash. What that portion is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 31:42. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Lukash” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: לוקש. 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 “Lukas” (לוקאס), write it and I will calculate that one.
Adding up the letters of the name לוקש gives 436.
436
The number 436 is the Torah word שעטנז — «mixed wool and linen» (Leviticus 19:19).
Now thou art commanded, this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
This is from the portion Vayigash. What it is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen.
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) — 436. A Torah word with the same number is שעטנז — “mixed wool and linen” (Leviticus 19:19).
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) — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noah” (Genesis 5:29).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1816.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 100936.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 638. A Torah word with the same number is ובריתך — “and your covenant” (Deuteronomy 33:9).
The letters that come out are כפדב — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 106. A Torah word with the same number is נון — “Nun, father of Joshua” (Exodus 33:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 632. A Torah word with the same number is בכרתי — “my birthright” (Genesis 27:36).
The number 436 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is שער הכוונות דרושי ראש השנה דרוש ג (~1573).
The name לוקש 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 לוקש these are ל and ש. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 31:42:
לולי אלהי אבי אלהי אברהם ופחד יצחק היה לי כי עתה ריקם שלחתני את עניי ואת יגיע כפי ראה אלהים ויוכח אמש
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.
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 — 436. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
«Now thou art commanded, this do ye: take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.»
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.