Alexandra — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Alexandra in Hebrew letters is אלכסנדרה. 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.
אלכסנדרה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אלכסנדרה. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 370 — the same as the Torah word שלם, “requital, i.e. a”. That number points to Torah page 16 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 Genesis 13:4. 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 אלכסנדרה gives 370.
370
The number 370 is the Torah word שלם — «requital, i.e. a» (Exodus 20:24).
The number 370, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 16 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
יהוה הן עם אחד ושפה אחת לכלם וזה …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 11:6:
וַיֹּאמֶר ה׳ הֵן עַם אֶחָד וְשָׂפָה אַחַת לְכֻלָּם וְזֶה הַחִלָּם לַעֲשׂוֹת וְעַתָּה לֹא־יִבָּצֵר מֵהֶם כֹּל אֲשֶׁר יָזְמוּ לַעֲשׂוֹת
And HaShem said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
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.
The same number, 370, is given by these biblical names:
פרץ · שלם · צפר · דישון
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) — 370. A Torah word with the same number is שלם — “requital, i.e. a” (Exodus 20:24).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “vigor, literally” (Genesis 4:12).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 82. A Torah word with the same number is לבן — “Laban, a Mesopotamian” (Genesis 24:29).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1451.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 47442.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1255.
The word that comes out is תכלחטקגצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 660. A Torah word with the same number is מצנפת — “a tiara, i.e. official turban” (Exodus 28:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1461.
The number 370 appears in the classical books 30 times across 16 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
The full message
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The name אלכסנדרה 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 אלכסנדרה these are א and ה. The Pentateuch has 49 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 13:4:
אל מקום המזבח אשר עשה שם בראשנה ויקרא שם אברם בשם ה׳
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.
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) — 370. A Torah word with the same number is שלם — “requital, i.e. a” (Exodus 20:24).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “vigor, literally” (Genesis 4:12).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 82. A Torah word with the same number is לבן — “Laban, a Mesopotamian” (Genesis 24:29).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1451.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 47442.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1255.
The word that comes out is תכלחטקגצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 660. A Torah word with the same number is מצנפת — “a tiara, i.e. official turban” (Exodus 28:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1461.
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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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