The name Arphaxad in Hebrew letters is ארפכשד. 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.
ארפכשד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ארפכשד. A Tanakh name: of Noah's line; also the region he settled (first in Genesis 10:22; 9 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 605 — the same as the Torah word ארפכשד, “Arpachshad, son of Shem”. That number points to Torah page 251 of 354 — in the portion Shlach. What that portion is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 15:1. 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 ארפכשד gives 605.
605
The number 605 is the Torah word ארפכשד — «Arpachshad, son of Shem» (Genesis 10:22).
I am HaShem your G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your G-d: I am HaShem your G-d.'
This is from the portion Shlach. What it is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit.
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) — 605. A Torah word with the same number is ארפכשד — “Arpachshad, son of Shem” (Genesis 10:22).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 74. A Torah word with the same number is עד — “until, as far as” (Genesis 3:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2381.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 136817.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1990.
The letters that come out are תגולבק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 541. A Torah word with the same number is ישראל — “Israel” (Genesis 32:29).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1596.
The number 605 appears in the classical books 7 times across 4 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 — 605. 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. ארפכשד has 6 letters: א Alef, ר Resh, פ Pe, כ Kaf, ש Shin, ד Dalet. The first letter is Alef, the last is Dalet.
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The name ארפכשד appears in the Torah as a word 3 times. The first time is Genesis 10:22. Another 3 times 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 ארפכשד these are א and ד. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 15:1:
אחר הדברים האלה היה דבר ה׳ אל אברם במחזה לאמר אל תירא אברם אנכי מגן לך שכרך הרבה מאד
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.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
ובני זבולן סרד ואלון ויחלאל
Genesis 46:14 · 23 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 605 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
The name ארפכשד has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 605 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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.
