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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

Shalom

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The number of your name

Shalom (שלום) stands in the Torah as a word of its own — 12 times. First in Genesis 15:15.

Shalom (שלום) — A Tanakh name: the name of fourteen Israelites (first in 2 Kings 15:10; 27 mentions in the Tanakh).
And the same number belongs to the Torah word עשו — “Esau, son of Isaac”.

Your word in the Torah

The word עשו — “Esau, son of Isaac” — has the same number as your name. Here is the verse where it first appears:

ויקח אברם את שרי אשתו ואת לוט בן אחיו ואת כל רכושם אשר רכשו ואת הנפש אשר עשו בחרן ויצאו ללכת ארצה כנען ויבאו ארצה כנען

Genesis 12:5

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.

שפך דם האדם באדם דמו ישפך כי בצלם אלהים עשה את האדם

Genesis 9:6

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

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 376: 44 of 54

You are not alone in this number

The same number belongs to these names:

Esau Florin Iskra Karmelo Korney Lorents Martiniano Paramon Quirino Shua

How to read your number

Fact. The letters of the name שלום add up to 376. Plain addition — you can check it yourself.

Meaning. There is a Torah word with the same number — עשו (“Esau, son of Isaac”). 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. 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 (376).

Our verse — for two

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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.

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שלום

Spelling attested: this is how the name is recorded in the open Wikidata name base.

In short

Your name in Hebrew letters is שלום. A Tanakh name: the name of fourteen Israelites (first in 2 Kings 15:10; 27 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 376 — the same as the Torah word עשו, “Esau, son of Isaac”. That number points to Torah page 22 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 9:6. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.

You wrote “Shalom” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: שלום. The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.

Adding up the letters of the name שלום gives 376.

376

The number 376 is the Torah word עשו — «Esau, son of Isaac» (Genesis 25:25).

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

The number 376, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 22 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis).

The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 15:17:

וַיְהִי הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ בָּאָה וַעֲלָטָה הָיָה וְהִנֵּה תַנּוּר עָשָׁן וְלַפִּיד אֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר עָבַר בֵּין הַגְּזָרִים הָאֵלֶּה

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.

This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.

The same number, 376, is given by these Tanakh names:

Esau עשו

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) — 936.

Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).

Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 52. A Torah word with the same number is בן — “son” (Genesis 3:16).

Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1366.

Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92536.

Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1342.

The letters that come out are בכפי — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 112. A Torah word with the same number is יבק — “Jabbok river” (Genesis 32:23).

Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 526. A Torah word with the same number is מופת — “wonder, sign” (Exodus 4:21).

The number 376 appears in the classical books 35 times across 10 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).

The name שלום appears in the Torah as a word 12 times. The first time is Genesis 15:15. Another 12 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.

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 שלום these are ש and מ. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 9:6:

שפך דם האדם באדם דמו ישפך כי בצלם אלהים עשה את האדם

This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.

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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 — 376. 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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A verse whose whole sum equals your name

ה׳ ימלך לעלם ועד

Exodus 15:18 · 15 letters in the verse

All the letters of this verse add up to 376 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.

Your name's day

Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: שלום = 376. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-11-1212 Cheshvan 5788in 384 days

The verse of that day

«And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.»

Bereshit (Genesis) 15:17 · 22 / 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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