The name Arthur in Hebrew letters is ארתור. 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.
ארתור
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ארתור. Origin uncertain; often linked to Celtic artos, “bear”, or to the Roman name Artorius. It is known from the legends of King Arthur. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 807 — the same as the Torah word תאות, “utmost bound of”. That number points to Torah page 99 of 354 — in the portion Shemot. What that portion is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 23:15. 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 ארתור gives 807.
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The number 807 is the Torah word תאות — «utmost bound of» (Genesis 49:26).
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us: Make brick; and, behold, thy servants are beaten, but the fault is in thine own people.'
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
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) — 807. A Torah word with the same number is תאות — “utmost bound of” (Genesis 49:26).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 69. A Torah word with the same number is אביון — “poor, needy” (Exodus 23:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3107.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 240037.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2217.
The letters that come out are תגאפג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 487. A Torah word with the same number is זפת — “pitch” (Exodus 2:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1549.
The number 807 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is מועד לכל חי (~1861).
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 — 807. 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. ארתור has 5 letters: א Alef, ר Resh, ת Tav, ו Vav, ר Resh. The first letter is Alef, the last is Resh.
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The name ארתור 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 ארתור these are א and ר. The Pentateuch has 15 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 23:15:
אדני שמעני ארץ ארבע מאת שקל כסף ביני ובינך מה הוא ואת מתך קבר
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
ראובן שמעון לוי ויהודה
Exodus 1:2 · 19 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 807 — 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 ארתור has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 807 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.
