The name Bildad in Hebrew letters is בלדד. 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.
בלדד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is בלדד. A Tanakh name: one of Job's friends (first in Job 2:11; 5 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 40 — the same as the Torah word חלב, “fat”. That number points to Torah page 40 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 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 בלדד gives 40.
40
The number 40 is the Torah word חלב — «fat» (Genesis 4:4).
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years; and he expired and died; and was gathered unto his people.
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) — 40. A Torah word with the same number is חלב — “fat” (Genesis 4:4).
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) — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “together” (Genesis 13:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 128. A Torah word with the same number is חלץ — “to pull out, remove” (Leviticus 14:40).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 936.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 110. A Torah word with the same number is עם — “people” (Genesis 11:6).
The letters that come out are שכקק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 520. A Torah word with the same number is שכר — “wages, reward” (Genesis 15:1).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1354.
The number 40 appears in the classical books 14 times across 14 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 40. 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. בלדד has 4 letters: ב Bet, ל Lamed, ד Dalet, ד Dalet. The first letter is Bet, the last is Dalet.
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The name בלדד 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 בלדד 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.
The name בלדד has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 40 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.
