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
Parker
Tap the letters of your name and add up its number yourself
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The number of your name
Parker (פרקר) — Parker is an English surname that meant “keeper of a park”, from the Old French word parc. And the same number belongs to the Torah word שעיר — “hairy; male goat”.
Your word in the Torah
The word שעיר — “hairy; male goat” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:
ואת החרי בהררם שעיר עד איל פארן אשר על המדבר
Genesis 14:6
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.
פן יאמרו הארץ אשר הוצאתנו משם מבלי יכלת ה׳ להביאם אל הארץ אשר דבר להם ומשנאתו אותם הוציאם להמתם במדבר
Deuteronomy 9:28
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, פ, and ends with the last, ר.
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 580: 36 of 54
A word with the number 580 appears in 36 of the 54 weekly portions.
Fact. The letters of the name פרקר add up to 580. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.
Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — שעיר (“hairy; male goat”). 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. 5 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 (580).
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 פרקר. Parker is an English surname that meant “keeper of a park”, from the Old French word parc. It has been used as a first name in the United States since the 20th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 580 — the same as the Torah word שעיר, “hairy; male goat”. That number points to Torah page 226 of 354 — in the portion Bamidbar. What that portion is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 9:28. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Parker” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: פרקר. 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.
Adding up the letters of the name פרקר gives 580.
580
The number 580 is the Torah word שעיר — «hairy; male goat» (Genesis 27:11).
but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;
This is from the portion Bamidbar. What it is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service.
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) — 580. A Torah word with the same number is שעיר — “hairy; male goat” (Genesis 27:11).
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) — 76. A Torah word with the same number is עבד — “servant” (Genesis 9:25).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2590.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 96400.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1320.
The letters that come out are וגדג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1287.
The number 580 appears in the classical books 13 times across 9 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
The name פרקר 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 פרקר these are פ and ר. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 9:28:
פן יאמרו הארץ אשר הוצאתנו משם מבלי יכלת ה׳ להביאם אל הארץ אשר דבר להם ומשנאתו אותם הוציאם להמתם במדבר
This is from the portion Eikev. What it is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema.
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 — 580. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
The name פרקר has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 580 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
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.