The name Apollinaire in Hebrew letters is אפולינהר. 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.
אפולינהר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אפולינהר. This name comes from the Greek language: the word Apollon means “the god Apollo”. The name means “belonging to Apollo”; Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 382 — the same as the Torah word מבשם, “Mibsam, son of Ishmael”. 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 Genesis 23:15. 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 אפולינהר gives 382.
382
The number 382 is the Torah word מבשם — «Mibsam, son of Ishmael» (Genesis 25:13).
This number is shared with 2 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.
The number 382, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 28 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis).
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.
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) — 382. A Torah word with the same number is מבשם — “Mibsam, son of Ishmael” (Genesis 25:13).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 31. A Torah word with the same number is אל — “to, toward” (Genesis 1:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 85. A Torah word with the same number is פה — “mouth” (Genesis 4:11).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1592.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 49962.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1154.
The letters that come out are תופכמטצג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 648. A Torah word with the same number is מחרת — “the next day” (Genesis 19:34).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 920.
The number 382 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is עולם אחד (~1480?).
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 — 382. 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. אפולינהר has 8 letters: א Alef, פ Pe, ו Vav, ל Lamed, י Yod, נ Nun, ה He, ר Resh. The first letter is Alef, the last is Resh.
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The name אפולינהר 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 אפולינהר these are א and ר. The Pentateuch has 15 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 23:15:
אדני שמעני ארץ ארבע מאת שקל כסף ביני ובינך מה הוא ואת מתך קבר
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: אפולינהר = 382. 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.
