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.
Neta (נטע) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 2 times. First in Numbers 24:6.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with נ and ends with ע. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — we count only the Torah so far.
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 129 appears in 12 of the 54 weekly portions. That is a rare number: most numbers appear more often.
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.
Neta — A name of biblical origin — its biblical spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
נטע
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is נטע. “Planting, seedling.” A word from Ecclesiastes: “a time to plant” (3:2). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 129 — the same as the Torah word נטע, “to strike in, i.e. fix”. That number points to Torah page 129 of 354 — in the portion Mishpatim. What that portion 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”. 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 נטע gives 129.
129
The number 129 is the Torah word נטע — «to strike in, i.e. fix» (Genesis 2:8).
The number 129, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 129 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
יהוה תהיה בין שניהם אם לא שלח ידו …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 22:10:
שְׁבֻעַת ה׳ תִּהְיֶה בֵּין שְׁנֵיהֶם אִם־לֹא שָׁלַח יָדוֹ בִּמְלֶאכֶת רֵעֵהוּ וְלָקַח בְּעָלָיו וְלֹא יְשַׁלֵּם
the oath of HaShem shall be between them both, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.
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”.
The same number, 129, is given by these biblical names:
יהוחנן · עיטם · חנמאל · חנניהו
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) — 129. A Torah word with the same number is נטע — “to strike in, i.e. fix” (Genesis 2:8).
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) — 39. A Torah word with the same number is גאלה — “redemption” (Leviticus 25:24).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 565.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 7481.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 238. A Torah word with the same number is רחל — “Rachel, a wife of Jacob” (Genesis 29:6).
The word that comes out is טנז. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 66. A Torah word with the same number is כמו — “a form of the prefix 'k-', but used separately…” (Genesis 19:15).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 655.
The number 129 appears in the classical books 4 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name נטע appears in the Torah as a word 2 times. The first time is Numbers 24:6.
The verse of your name
There is no verse in the Pentateuch that begins with נ and ends with ע. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.
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.