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
Pekah
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The number of your name
Pekah (פקח) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 1 time. First in Exodus 4:11.
Your word in the Torah
The word פקח — “to open” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:
ויאמר ה׳ אליו מי שם פה לאדם או מי ישום אלם או חרש או פקח או עור הלא אנכי ה׳
Exodus 4:11
The verse of your name
Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with פ and ends with ח. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.
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 188: 7 of 54
A word with the number 188 appears in 7 of the 54 weekly portions. That is a rare number: most numbers appear more often.
Fact. The letters of the name פקח add up to 188. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.
Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — פקח (“to open”). 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. 8 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 (188).
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 פקח. A Tanakh name: a king of Israel (first in 2 Kings 15:25; 11 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “watch”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 188 — the same as the Torah word פקח, “to open”. That number points to Torah page 188 of 354 — in the portion Tazria. What that portion is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Pekah” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: פקח. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name פקח gives 188.
188
The number 188 is the Torah word פקח — «to open» (Genesis 3:5).
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing thereof, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.
This is from the portion Tazria. What it is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection.
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) — 188. A Torah word with the same number is פקח — “to open” (Genesis 3:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 44. A Torah word with the same number is ילד — “to bear, give birth” (Genesis 3:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1036. A Torah word with the same number is כריתות — “divorce” (Deuteronomy 24:1).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 16464.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 448. A Torah word with the same number is במות — “Bamoth, place in Moab” (Numbers 21:19).
The letters that come out are ודס — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 70. A Torah word with the same number is כן — “so, thus” (Genesis 1:7).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 685. A Torah word with the same number is עטרות — “Ataroth, town in Gilead” (Numbers 32:3).
The number 188 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is מנורת המאור (אבוהב) (~1400).
The name פקח appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Exodus 4:11.
The verse of your name
Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with פ and ends with ח. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.
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 — 188. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
«And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing thereof, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.»
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.