The name Basmat in Hebrew letters is בשמת. 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.
בשמת
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בשמת. A Tanakh name: a wife of Esau; also a daughter of Solomon (first in Genesis 26:34; 7 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “fragrance”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 742 — the same as the Torah word בשמת, “Basemath, wife of Esau”. That number points to Torah page 34 of 354 — in the portion Chayei Sarah. What that portion 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 verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 15:18. 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 בשמת gives 742.
742
The number 742 is the Torah word בשמת — «Basemath, wife of Esau» (Genesis 26:34).
And Sarah died in Kiriatharba--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
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.
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) — 742. A Torah word with the same number is בשמת — “Basemath, wife of Esau” (Genesis 26:34).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noah” (Genesis 5:29).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2738.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 251604.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1388.
The letters that come out are שביא — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 313. A Torah word with the same number is שחה — “to bow down” (Genesis 18:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1258.
The number 742 appears in the classical books 2 times across 1 work. The earliest mention is ליקוטי הלכות (~1840).
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 — 742. 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. בשמת has 4 letters: ב Bet, ש Shin, מ Mem, ת Tav. The first letter is Bet, the last is Tav.
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The name בשמת appears in the Torah as a word 6 times. The first time is Genesis 26:34.
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 בשמת these are ב and ת. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 15:18:
ביום ההוא כרת ה׳ את אברם ברית לאמר לזרעך נתתי את הארץ הזאת מנהר מצרים עד הנהר הגדל נהר פרת
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
The name בשמת has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 742 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.
