The name Bezil in Hebrew letters is בזיל. 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.
בזיל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בזיל. This name comes from the Greek language: the word basileus means “king”. Basil the Great was bishop of Caesarea in the 4th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 49 — the same as the Torah word מואב, “Moab, son of Lot”. That number points to Torah page 49 of 354 — in the portion Vayetzei. What that portion is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:27. 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 בזיל gives 49.
49
The number 49 is the Torah word מואב — «Moab, son of Lot» (Genesis 19:37).
And she conceived again, and bore a son; and said: 'Because HaShem hath heard that I am hated, He hath therefore given me this son also.' And she called his name Simeon.
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
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) — 49. A Torah word with the same number is מואב — “Moab, son of Lot” (Genesis 19:37).
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) — 31. A Torah word with the same number is אל — “to, toward” (Genesis 1:9).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 191. A Torah word with the same number is המקום — “the place” (Genesis 13:3).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 1053.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 79. A Torah word with the same number is עדה — “congregation” (Exodus 12:3).
The letters that come out are שעמכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 430. A Torah word with the same number is נפש — “soul, living being” (Genesis 1:20).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 573. A Torah word with the same number is בראשיכם — “as your heads” (Deuteronomy 1:13).
The number 49 appears in the classical books 30 times across 21 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 — 49. 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. בזיל has 4 letters: ב Bet, ז Zayin, י Yod, ל Lamed. The first letter is Bet, the last is Lamed.
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The name בזיל 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 בזיל these are ב and ל. The Pentateuch has 5 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:27:
בנימין זאב יטרף בבקר יאכל עד ולערב יחלק שלל
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.
The name בזיל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 49 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.
