The name Avner in Hebrew letters is אבנר. 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.
אבנר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אבנר. A Tanakh name: the name of an Israelite (first in 1 Samuel 14:50; 63 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “father of light”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 253 — the same as the Torah word אבירם, “Abiram, son of Eliab”. That number points to Torah page 253 of 354 — in the portion Korach. What that portion is about: Korah's rebellion; Aaron's staff blossoms; the duties of the priests and Levites; the priestly gifts. 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 אבנר gives 253.
253
The number 253 is the Torah word אבירם — «Abiram, son of Eliab» (Numbers 16:1).
And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
This is from the portion Korach. What it is about: Korah's rebellion; Aaron's staff blossoms; the duties of the priests and Levites; the priestly gifts.
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) — 253. A Torah word with the same number is אבירם — “Abiram, son of Eliab” (Numbers 16:1).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 37. A Torah word with the same number is גדל — “to grow, be great” (Genesis 12:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 994.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 42505.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 310. A Torah word with the same number is חשב — “to reckon, think” (Genesis 15:6).
The letters that come out are תשטג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 712. A Torah word with the same number is יבשת — “dry land” (Exodus 4:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1139.
The number 253 appears in the classical books 16 times across 12 works. The earliest mention is ספר חסידים (~1200).
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 — 253. 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. אבנר has 4 letters: א Alef, ב Bet, נ Nun, ר Resh. The first letter is Alef, the last is Resh.
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The name אבנר 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 אבנר 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.
The name אבנר has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 253 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.
