The name Arioch in Hebrew letters is אריוך. 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.
אריוך
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אריוך. A Tanakh name: the name of two Babylonians (first in Genesis 14:1; 7 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 237 — the same as the Torah word בכירה, “the firstborn daughter”. That number points to Torah page 237 of 354 — in the portion Behaalotcha. What that portion is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 3:16. 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 אריוך gives 237.
237
The number 237 is the Torah word בכירה — «the firstborn daughter» (Genesis 19:31).
For all the first-born among the children of Israel are Mine, both man and beast; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.
This is from the portion Behaalotcha. What it is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat.
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) — 717.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “he, it” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 48. A Torah word with the same number is יובל — “ram's horn, jubilee” (Exodus 19:13).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 947.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40537.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 867.
The letters that come out are תגמפל — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 553. A Torah word with the same number is שריגם — “branches” (Genesis 40:10).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 753. A Torah word with the same number is והקרבתם — “and you shall offer” (Leviticus 23:8).
The number 237 appears in the classical books 6 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 237. 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. אריוך has 5 letters: א Alef, ר Resh, י Yod, ו Vav, ך final Kaf. The first letter is Alef, the last is final Kaf.
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The name אריוך appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 14:1. Another 1 time it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 אריוך these are א and כ. The Pentateuch has 30 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 3:16:
אל האשה אמר הרבה ארבה עצבונך והרנך בעצב תלדי בנים ואל אישך תשוקתך והוא ימשל בך
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
«For all the first-born among the children of Israel are Mine, both man and beast; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.»
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.
