The name Apollon in Hebrew letters is אפולון. 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.
אפולון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אפולון. The name of the Greek god Apollo, god of light, music and poetry; the root of the name is not known. The form Apollon is used in Russia and Greece. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 173 — the same as the Torah word ספיחיה, “its aftergrowth”. That number points to Torah page 173 of 354 — in the portion Tzav. What that portion is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 36:27. 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 אפולון gives 173.
173
The number 173 is the Torah word ספיחיה — «its aftergrowth» (Leviticus 25:11).
And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning thereby, it shall not go out; and the priest shall kindle wood on it every morning; and he shall lay the burnt-offering in order upon it, and shall make smoke thereon the fat of the peace-offerings.
This is from the portion Tzav. What it is about: The fire on the altar is never to go out; the priests' portion; the seven days of consecration of Aaron and his sons.
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) — 823. A Torah word with the same number is תחתיה — “in its place” (Leviticus 13:23).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 29. A Torah word with the same number is דכה — “crushed” (Deuteronomy 23:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 56. A Torah word with the same number is יום — “day” (Genesis 1:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 748. A Torah word with the same number is מרקחת — “ointment mixture” (Exodus 30:25).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 9873.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 582. A Torah word with the same number is למצותיו — “to his commandments” (Exodus 15:26).
The letters that come out are תופכפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 595. A Torah word with the same number is התפקדו — “were numbered” (Numbers 1:47).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 396. A Torah word with the same number is מכשול — “stumbling block” (Leviticus 19:14).
The number 173 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער חג המצות (~1573).
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 — 173. 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. אפולון has 6 letters: א Alef, פ Pe, ו Vav, ל Lamed, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Alef, the last is final Nun.
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The name אפולון 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 אפולון these are א and נ. The Pentateuch has 35 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 36:27:
אלה בני אצר בלהן וזעון ועקן
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.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: אפולון = 173. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning thereby, it shall not go out; and the priest shall kindle wood on it every morning; and he shall lay the burnt-offering in order upon it, and shall make smoke thereon the fat of the peace-offerings.»
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.
