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.
The number of your name is 28. The Torah word כח — “vigor, literally” — has the same.
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.
זה יתנו כל העבר על הפקדים מחצית השקל בשקל הקדש עשרים גרה השקל מחצית השקל תרומה לה׳
Exodus 30:13
The verse is chosen by the custom: it begins with the first letter of your name, ז, and ends with the last, ה.
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
A word with the number 28 appears in 26 of the 54 weekly portions.
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.
Zoya — The customary Hebrew spelling of this name. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
זויה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is זויה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 28 — the same as the Torah word כח, “vigor, literally”. That number points to Torah page 28 of 354 — in the portion Vayera. What that portion is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 30:13. 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 זויה gives 28.
28
The number 28 is the Torah word כח — «vigor, literally» (Genesis 4:12).
The number 28, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 28 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
לוט אלהם אל נא אדני הנה נא מצא …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 19:18:
וַיֹּאמֶר לוֹט אֲלֵהֶם אַל־נָא אֲדֹנָי
And Lot said unto them: 'Oh, not so, my lord;
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
The same number, 28, is given by these biblical names:
זבדיה · גחזי · אביהוד · זבידה
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) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “vigor, literally” (Genesis 4:12).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “a foreign nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “vigor, literally” (Genesis 4:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 119. A Torah word with the same number is מעט — “a little or few” (Genesis 18:4).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 210. A Torah word with the same number is דור — “a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation” (Genesis 6:9).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 71. A Torah word with the same number is מלא — “to fill or” (Genesis 1:22).
The word that comes out is עפמצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 280. A Torah word with the same number is עיר — “a city” (Genesis 4:17).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 105. A Torah word with the same number is עלה — “to ascend, intransitively” (Genesis 2:6).
The number 28 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער השופר (~1573).
The name זויה 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 זויה these are ז and ה. The Pentateuch has 8 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 30:13:
זה יתנו כל העבר על הפקדים מחצית השקל בשקל הקדש עשרים גרה השקל מחצית השקל תרומה לה׳
This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.
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.