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.
Noah (נח) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 37 times. First in Genesis 5:29.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with נ and ends with ח. 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 58 appears in 33 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.
Noah — 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.
נח
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is נח. “Rest, comfort” (Genesis 5:29). He built the ark and survived the flood; the rainbow became the sign of the covenant with him (Genesis 6–9). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 58 — the same as the Torah word נח, “Noach, the patriarch of the flood”. That number points to Torah page 58 of 354 — in the portion Vayishlach. What that portion is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death. 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 נח gives 58.
58
The number 58 is the Torah word נח — «Noach, the patriarch of the flood» (Genesis 5:29).
Chen, “grace”, is 58; Noach is the same letters, 58.
The number 58, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 58 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
מפדן ארם ויחן את פני העיר ויקן את …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 33:18:
וַיָּבֹא יַעֲקֹב שָׁלֵם עִיר שְׁכֶם אֲשֶׁר בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנַעַן בְּבֹאוֹ מִפַּדַּן אֲרָם וַיִּחַן אֶת־פְּנֵי הָעִיר
And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city.
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
The same number, 58, is given by these biblical names:
נח · גדליהו · נבו · דדן
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) — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noach, the patriarch of the flood” (Genesis 5:29).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “united, i.e. one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “a unit, i.e.” (Genesis 13:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 231.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 2564.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 108. A Torah word with the same number is חק — “an enactment” (Genesis 47:22).
The word that comes out is טס. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 69. A Torah word with the same number is אביון — “destitute” (Exodus 23:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 524.
The number 58 appears in the classical books 14 times across 10 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The name נח appears in the Torah as a word 37 times. The first time is Genesis 5:29. Another 4 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
The verse of your name
There is no verse in the Pentateuch that begins with נ and ends with ח. 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.