Abigail — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Abigail in Hebrew letters is אביגיל. Below: how its number adds up, which page of the Torah it falls on and what verse stands there. Everything is computed, nothing is guessed.
אביגיל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אביגיל. “My father is joy.” The wise woman of Carmel who became David’s wife (1 Samuel 25). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 56 — the same as the Torah word יום, “a day”. That number points to Torah page 56 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. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 10:32. 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 אביגיל gives 56.
56
The number 56 is the Torah word יום — «a day» (Genesis 1:5).
The number 56, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 56 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
ובין עדר ויצו את הראשון לאמר כי יפגשך …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 32:17:
וַיִּתֵּן בְּיַד־עֲבָדָיו עֵדֶר עֵדֶר לְבַדּוֹ וַיֹּאמֶר אֶל־עֲבָדָיו עִבְרוּ לְפָנַי וְרֶוַח תָּשִׂימוּ בֵּין עֵדֶר וּבֵין עֵדֶר
And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself; and said unto his servants: 'Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.'
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, 56, is given by these biblical names:
נדב · אביגיל · בדן · אחזם
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) — 56. A Torah word with the same number is יום — “a day” (Genesis 1:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “a festival, or a victim therefor” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to denude” (Genesis 9:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 225. A Torah word with the same number is כרה — “to dig” (Genesis 26:25).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1114.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 115. A Torah word with the same number is חזק — “to fasten upon” (Genesis 19:16).
The word that comes out is תשמרמכ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 1000.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 720.
The number 56 appears in the classical books 8 times across 8 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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, the day 861 of your life, the psalm by age, the attestations from 834 works — a PDF built the moment you pay.
The name אביגיל 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 אביגיל these are א and ל. The Pentateuch has 11 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 10:32:
אלה משפחת בני נח לתולדתם בגויהם ומאלה נפרדו הגוים בארץ אחר המבול
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.
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) — 56. A Torah word with the same number is יום — “a day” (Genesis 1:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “a festival, or a victim therefor” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to denude” (Genesis 9:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 225. A Torah word with the same number is כרה — “to dig” (Genesis 26:25).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1114.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 115. A Torah word with the same number is חזק — “to fasten upon” (Genesis 19:16).
The word that comes out is תשמרמכ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 1000.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 720.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
Compute with a date of birth The whole Torah page 56
Other names
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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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.
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