The name Bedad in Hebrew letters is בדד. 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.
בדד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בדד. A Tanakh name: an Edomite (first in Genesis 36:35; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 10 — the same as the Torah word בדד, “alone”. That number points to Torah page 10 of 354 — in the portion Noach. What that portion 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. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 40:2. 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 בדד gives 10.
10
The number 10 is the Torah word בדד — «alone» (Numbers 23:9).
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
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.
The same number, 10, is given by these Tanakh names:
Zeev זאב
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.
with finals, reduced and ordinal — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 23.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 36. A Torah word with the same number is אלה — “these” (Genesis 2:4).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
The letters that come out are שקק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 500. A Torah word with the same number is נתן — “to give” (Genesis 1:17).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1280.
The number 10 appears in the classical books 39 times across 20 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 — 10. 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. בדד has 3 letters: ב Bet, ד Dalet, ד Dalet. The first letter is Bet, the last is Dalet.
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The name בדד appears in the Torah as a word 4 times. The first time is Genesis 36:35. Another 1 time it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 בדד these are ב and ד. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 40:2:
ביום החדש הראשון באחד לחדש תקים את משכן אהל מועד
This is from the portion Pekudei. What it is about: The accounting of the materials; the priestly garments are finished; the Tabernacle is raised on the first of Nisan; the cloud covers it.
«And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.»
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.
