The name Bered in Hebrew letters is ברד. 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.
ברד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ברד. A Tanakh name: name of a place and an Israelite (first in Genesis 16:14; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “hail”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 206 — the same as the Torah word דבר, “to speak”. That number points to Torah page 206 of 354 — in the portion Emor. What that portion is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread. 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 ברד gives 206.
206
The number 206 is the Torah word דבר — «to speak» (Genesis 8:15).
And ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto HaShem seven days; in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
This is from the portion Emor. What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
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) — 206. A Torah word with the same number is דבר — “to speak” (Genesis 8:15).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 8. A Torah word with the same number is אהב — “to love” (Genesis 22:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 26. A Torah word with the same number is והיה — “and it became” (Genesis 2:10).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 808. A Torah word with the same number is תחת — “under, beneath” (Genesis 1:7).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40020.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 410. A Torah word with the same number is שמע — “to hear” (Genesis 3:8).
The letters that come out are שגק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 403. A Torah word with the same number is גרר — “Gerar, Philistine city” (Genesis 10:19).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1356.
The number 206 appears in the classical books 6 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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 — 206. 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. ברד has 3 letters: ב Bet, ר Resh, ד Dalet. The first letter is Bet, the last is Dalet.
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The name ברד appears in the Torah as a word 6 times. The first time is Genèse 16:14. Another 12 times 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 ברד 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.
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.
