The name Canaan in Hebrew letters is כנען. 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.
כנען
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is כנען. A Tanakh name: a son of Ham; also the land he inhabited (first in Genesis 9:18; 93 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 190 — the same as the Torah word כנען, “Canaan, son of Ham”. That number points to Torah page 190 of 354 — in the portion Metzora. What that portion is about: Purification from tzaraat: two birds, cedar and hyssop; tzaraat of houses; discharges and purification. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 7:9. 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 כנען gives 190.
190
The number 190 is the Torah word כנען — «Canaan, son of Ham» (Genesis 9:18).
And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand.
This is from the portion Metzora. What it is about: Purification from tzaraat: two birds, cedar and hyssop; tzaraat of houses; discharges and purification.
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) — 840. A Torah word with the same number is תולדת — “generations of” (Genesis 5:1).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to go, walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 790. A Torah word with the same number is תשיעי — “ninth” (Leviticus 25:22).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 10300.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 420. A Torah word with the same number is ענש — “to fine, punish” (Exodus 21:22).
The letters that come out are לטזט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to go, walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 442. A Torah word with the same number is בלתי — “not, except” (Genesis 3:11).
The number 190 appears in the classical books 15 times across 10 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 — 190. 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. כנען has 4 letters: כ Kaf, נ Nun, ע Ayin, ן final Nun. The first letter is Kaf, the last is final Nun.
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The name כנען appears in the Torah as a word 63 times. The first time is Genesis 9:18. Another 2 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 כנען these are כ and נ. The Pentateuch has 13 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 7:9:
כי ידבר אלכם פרעה לאמר תנו לכם מופת ואמרת אל אהרן קח את מטך והשלך לפני פרעה יהי לתנין
This is from the portion Vaera. What it is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail.
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.
