The name Baanah in Hebrew letters is בענה. 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.
בענה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בענה. A Tanakh name: the name of four Israelites (first in 2 Samuel 4:2; 9 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 127 — the same as the Torah word נמואל, “Nemuel, a Reubenite”. That number points to Torah page 127 of 354 — in the portion Mishpatim. What that portion is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 7:13. 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 בענה gives 127.
127
The number 127 is the Torah word נמואל — «Nemuel, a Reubenite» (Numbers 26:9).
And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
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) — 127. A Torah word with the same number is נמואל — “Nemuel, a Reubenite” (Numbers 26:9).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “nation” (Genesis 10:5).
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) — 538. A Torah word with the same number is נחלתן — “their inheritance” (Numbers 36:3).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 7429.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 323. A Torah word with the same number is ארבעים — “forty” (Genesis 5:13).
The letters that come out are שזטצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 406. A Torah word with the same number is אתה — “you” (Genesis 3:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 654. A Torah word with the same number is תוגרמה — “Togarmah, son of Gomer” (Genesis 10:3).
The number 127 appears in the classical books 6 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 127. 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. בענה has 4 letters: ב Bet, ע Ayin, נ Nun, ה He. The first letter is Bet, the last is He.
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The name בענה 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 בענה these are ב and ה. The Pentateuch has 16 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:13:
בעצם היום הזה בא נח ושם וחם ויפת בני נח ואשת נח ושלשת נשי בניו אתם אל התבה
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
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.
