Artem — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Artem in Hebrew letters is ארטיום. 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.
ארטיום
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ארטיום. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 266 — the same as the Torah word סור, “to turn off”. That number points to Torah page 266 of 354 — in the portion Balak. What that portion is about: Balak hires Balaam; the donkey sees the angel; blessing instead of curse: “how goodly are your tents, O Jacob”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 2:4. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name ארטיום gives 266.
266
The number 266 is the Torah word סור — «to turn off» (Genesis 8:13).
The number 266, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 266 in the book of Bamidbar (Numbers). These are its opening words:
אתו אשמר לדבר ויאמר אליו בלק לך נא …
The verse this place falls on is Bamidbar (Numbers) 23:12:
וַיַּעַן וַיֹּאמַר הֲלֹא אֵת אֲשֶׁר יָשִׂים ה׳ בְּפִי אֹתוֹ אֶשְׁמֹר לְדַבֵּר
And he answered and said: 'Must I not take heed to speak that which HaShem putteth in my mouth?'
This is from the portion Balak. What it is about: Balak hires Balaam; the donkey sees the angel; blessing instead of curse: “how goodly are your tents, O Jacob”.
The same number, 266, is given by these biblical names:
חברון · בחורים · ארניה · סור
Nine 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) — 826.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 59.
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1062.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 41818.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1124.
The word that comes out is תגנמפי. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 583.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1152.
The number 266 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
The full message
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, the day 861 of your life, the psalm by age, the attestations from 834 works — a PDF built the moment you pay.
The name ארטיום 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 ארטיום these are א and מ. The Pentateuch has 83 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 2:4:
אלה תולדות השמים והארץ בהבראם ביום עשות ה׳ אלהים ארץ ושמים
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.
Nine 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) — 826.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 59.
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1062.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 41818.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1124.
The word that comes out is תגנמפי. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 583.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1152.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
Compute with a date of birth The whole Torah page 266
Other names
Andrey · Anton · Antonio · Arie · Ariel · Arina · Asaf · Asher · Ava · Aviv · Ayelet · Bar · All names
How it is counted
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.
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