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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

Matfiy

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The number of your name

The number of your name is 149. The Torah word קדמה — “east of” — has the same.

Your word in the Torah

The word קדמה — “east of” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:

ולבני הפילגשים אשר לאברהם נתן אברהם מתנת וישלחם מעל יצחק בנו בעודנו חי קדמה אל ארץ קדם

Genesis 25:6

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.

מלאתך ודמעך לא תאחר בכור בניך תתן לי

Exodus 22:28

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

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 149: 3 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

Angeles Fabiano Ignatius Jahziel Kedemah Safet Sebastiao Segolene Stef Tapani

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name מטפיי add up to 149. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — קדמה (“east of”). 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

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The tradition counts a name in nine ways, each giving its own number. 6 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 (149).

Our verse — for two

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My days of the year

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מטפיי

In short

Your name in Hebrew letters is מטפיי. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 149 — the same as the Torah word קדמה, “east of”. That number points to Torah page 149 of 354 — in the portion Ki Tisa. What that portion is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 22:28. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.

You wrote “Matfiy” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: מטפיי. 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 “Matfey” (מתתיהו), write it and I will calculate that one.

Adding up the letters of the name מטפיי gives 149.

149

The number 149 is the Torah word קדמה — «east of» (Genesis 2:14).

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This number is shared with 6 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 149, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 149 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).

The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 32:30:

וַיְהִי מִמָּחֳרָת וַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה אֶל־הָעָם אַתֶּם חֲטָאתֶם חֲטָאָה גְדֹלָה וְעַתָּה אֶעֱלֶה אֶל־ה׳ אוּלַי אֲכַפְּרָה בְּעַד חַטַּאתְכֶם

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people: 'Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up unto HaShem, peradventure I shall make atonement for your sin.'

This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.

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) — 149. A Torah word with the same number is קדמה — “east of” (Genesis 2:14).

Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.

Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 59.

Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 705. A Torah word with the same number is שתה — “to drink” (Genesis 9:21).

Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 8281.

Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 506. A Torah word with the same number is שור — “ox” (Genesis 32:6).

The letters that come out are ינוממ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 146. A Torah word with the same number is קום — “to arise” (Genesis 4:8).

Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 620. A Torah word with the same number is עשרים — “twenty” (Genesis 6:3).

The number 149 appears in the classical books 6 times across 6 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).

The name מטפיי 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 מטפיי these are מ and י. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 22:28:

מלאתך ודמעך לא תאחר בכור בניך תתן לי

This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.

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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 — 149. 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:

מתפיי 540

Your name's day

Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: מטפיי = 149. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-06-2823 Sivan 5787in 247 days

The verse of that day

«And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people: 'Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up unto HaShem, peradventure I shall make atonement for your sin.'»

Shmot (Exodus) 32:30 · 149 / 354

Half of all names have such a day.

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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

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