The name Baptiste in Hebrew letters is בטיסט. 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.
בטיסט
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בטיסט. French name from the Greek baptistes, “one who immerses in water”. It refers to John the Baptist and is often joined as Jean-Baptiste. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 90 — the same as the Torah word מן, “from”. That number points to Torah page 90 of 354 — in the portion Vayechi. What that portion is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Proverbs 8:20. 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 בטיסט gives 90.
90
The number 90 is the Torah word מן — «from» (Genesis 2:6).
And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
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) — 90. A Torah word with the same number is מן — “from” (Genesis 2:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 27. A Torah word with the same number is בכה — “to weep” (Genesis 21:16).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 45. A Torah word with the same number is מה — “what” (Genesis 2:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 403. A Torah word with the same number is גרר — “Gerar, Philistine city” (Genesis 10:19).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3866.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 205. A Torah word with the same number is הר — “mountain” (Genesis 7:19).
The letters that come out are שנמחנ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 448. A Torah word with the same number is במות — “Bamoth, place in Moab” (Numbers 21:19).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1390.
The number 90 appears in the classical books 36 times across 19 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 — 90. 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. בטיסט has 5 letters: ב Bet, ט Tet, י Yod, ס Samekh, ט Tet. The first letter is Bet, the last is Tet.
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The name בטיסט 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 ב and ends with ט. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 3 such verses. The first of them is Proverbs 8:20:
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.
