The name Auguste in Hebrew letters is אוגוסט. 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.
אוגוסט
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אוגוסט. This name comes from Latin: the word augustus means “majestic, honoured”. Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor who made “The Thinker”. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 85 — the same as the Torah word פה, “mouth”. That number points to Torah page 85 of 354 — in the portion Vayigash. What that portion is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is 1 Kings 22:50. 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 אוגוסט gives 85.
85
The number 85 is the Torah word פה — «mouth» (Genesis 4:11).
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob: 'How many are the days of the years of thy life?'
This is from the portion Vayigash. What it is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen.
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) — 85. A Torah word with the same number is פה — “mouth” (Genesis 4:11).
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) — 40. A Torah word with the same number is חלב — “fat” (Genesis 4:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 349. A Torah word with the same number is שטם — “to bear a grudge” (Genesis 27:41).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3763.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 195. A Torah word with the same number is מקנה — “livestock, possession” (Genesis 4:20).
The letters that come out are תפרפחנ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 818. A Torah word with the same number is תחתי — “lowest” (Genesis 6:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 757. A Torah word with the same number is ותקראן — “and they invited” (Numbers 25:2).
The number 85 appears in the classical books 37 times across 18 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 — 85. 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. אוגוסט has 6 letters: א Alef, ו Vav, ג Gimel, ו Vav, ס Samekh, ט Tet. The first letter is Alef, the last is Tet.
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The name אוגוסט 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with א and ends with ט. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 5 such verses. The first of them is 1 Kings 22:50:
אז אמר אחזיהו בן אחאב אל יהושפט ילכו עבדי עם עבדיך באניות ולא אבה יהושפט
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.
