The name Apolloniy in Hebrew letters is אפולוניי. 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.
אפולוניי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אפולוניי. This name comes from the Greek language: the word Apollon means “the god Apollo”. The name means “belonging to Apollo”; Apollonius of Rhodes wrote a poem about the Argonauts. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 193 — the same as the Torah word וצמאון, “and thirsty ground”. That number points to Torah page 193 of 354 — in the portion Metzora. What that portion is about: Purification from tzaraat: two birds, cedar and hyssop; tzaraat of houses; discharges and purification. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 15:19. 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 אפולוניי gives 193.
193
The number 193 is the Torah word וצמאון — «and thirsty ground» (Deuteronomy 8:15).
And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sitteth upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
This is from the portion Metzora. What it is about: Purification from tzaraat: two birds, cedar and hyssop; tzaraat of houses; discharges and purification.
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) — 193. A Torah word with the same number is וצמאון — “and thirsty ground” (Deuteronomy 8:15).
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) — 76. A Torah word with the same number is עבד — “servant” (Genesis 9:25).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 858. A Torah word with the same number is תנובת — “produce of” (Deuteronomy 32:13).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 10073.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 958.
The letters that come out are תופכפטממ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 675. A Torah word with the same number is הסירת — “the pots” (Exodus 38:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 436. A Torah word with the same number is שעטנז — “mixed wool and linen” (Leviticus 19:19).
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 — 193. 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. אפולוניי has 8 letters: א Alef, פ Pe, ו Vav, ל Lamed, ו Vav, נ Nun, י Yod, י Yod. The first letter is Alef, the last is Yod.
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The name אפולוניי 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 אפולוניי these are א and י. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 15:19:
את הקיני ואת הקנזי ואת הקדמני
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: אפולוניי = 193. 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.
