The name Ahab in Hebrew letters is אחאב. 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.
אחאב
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אחאב. A Tanakh name: a king of Israel and a prophet at Babylon (first in 1 Kings 16:28; 93 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “brother of the father”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 12 — the same as the Torah word הוא, “he, it”. That number points to Torah page 12 of 354 — in the portion Noach. What that portion 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. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 11:31. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name אחאב gives 12.
12
The number 12 is the Torah word הוא — «he, it» (Genesis 2:11).
And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.
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.
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.
with finals, reduced and ordinal — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “he, it” (Genesis 2:11).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 41. A Torah word with the same number is אם — “if” (Genesis 4:7).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 70. A Torah word with the same number is כן — “so, thus” (Genesis 1:7).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 32. A Torah word with the same number is לב — “heart” (Genesis 6:5).
The letters that come out are תסתש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 1160.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1052.
The number 12 appears in the classical books 104 times across 69 works. The earliest mention is כל בו (~1300).
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 — 12. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
Hebrew is written from right to left. אחאב has 4 letters: א Alef, ח Chet, א Alef, ב Bet. The first letter is Alef, the last is Bet.
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The name אחאב 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 אחאב these are א and ב. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Leviticus 11:31:
אלה הטמאים לכם בכל השרץ כל הנגע בהם במתם יטמא עד הערב
This is from the portion Shmini. What it is about: The eighth day: Aaron's first service; fire from heaven; the death of Nadab and Abihu; clean and unclean animals.
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.
