The name Carl in Hebrew letters is קרל. 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.
קרל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is קרל. A form of the name Charles. From Germanic karl, “free man”. Charlemagne, king of the Franks, made the name famous in Europe. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 330 — the same as the Torah word צמר, “wool”. That number points to Torah page 330 of 354 — in the portion Ki Teitzei. What that portion is about: “When you go out”: seventy-four commandments — the bird's nest, honest weights, divorce, remembering Amalek. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is 1 Samuel 2:4. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Carl” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: קרל. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name קרל gives 330.
330
The number 330 is the Torah word צמר — «wool» (Leviticus 13:47).
and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month; and after that thou mayest go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
This is from the portion Ki Teitzei. What it is about: “When you go out”: seventy-four commandments — the bird's nest, honest weights, divorce, remembering Amalek.
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) — 330. A Torah word with the same number is צמר — “wool” (Leviticus 13:47).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 6. A Torah word with the same number is בד — “alone, apart” (Genesis 2:18).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 51. A Torah word with the same number is אכל — “to eat” (Genesis 2:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1495.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 50900.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 730.
The letters that come out are דגכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 27. A Torah word with the same number is בכה — “to weep” (Genesis 21:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 770. A Torah word with the same number is תשע — “nine” (Genesis 5:5).
The number 330 appears in the classical books 15 times across 13 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 — 330. 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. קרל has 3 letters: ק Qof, ר Resh, ל Lamed. The first letter is Qof, the last is Lamed.
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The name קרל 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ק and ends with ל. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 7 such verses. The first of them is 1 Samuel 2:4:
«and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month; and after that thou mayest go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.»
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.
