The name Alexandria in Hebrew letters is אלקסנדריה. 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.
אלקסנדריה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אלקסנדריה. This name comes from the Greek language: the roots alexein + aner mean “defender of people”. The name repeats the city of Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 460 — the same as the Torah word יקשן, “Jokshan, son of Abraham”. That number points to Torah page 106 of 354 — in the portion Vaera. What that portion is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name אלקסנדריה gives 460.
460
The number 460 is the Torah word יקשן — «Jokshan, son of Abraham» (Genesis 25:2).
Surely now I had put forth My hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth.
This is from the portion Vaera. What it is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail.
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) — 460. A Torah word with the same number is יקשן — “Jokshan, son of Abraham” (Genesis 25:2).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “strength” (Genesis 4:12).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 100. A Torah word with the same number is על — “on, over” (Genesis 1:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2026.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 57142.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2200.
The letters that come out are תכדחטקגמצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 674. A Torah word with the same number is לדרתם — “throughout their generations” (Genesis 17:7).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1567.
The number 460 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is ציצים ופרחים (יעב"ץ) (~1750).
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 — 460. 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. אלקסנדריה has 9 letters: א Alef, ל Lamed, ק Qof, ס Samekh, נ Nun, ד Dalet, ר Resh, י Yod, ה He. The first letter is Alef, the last is He.
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The name אלקסנדריה 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 אלקסנדריה 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.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: אלקסנדריה = 460. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
