The name Cedric in Hebrew letters is סדריס. 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.
סדריס
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is סדריס. A name made up by the writer Walter Scott for his novel “Ivanhoe” in 1819, probably from the old Saxon name Cerdic. It is used in English and French speaking countries. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 334 — the same as the Torah word כשדי, “Chaldean”. That number points to Torah page 334 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. 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 סדריס gives 334.
334
The number 334 is the Torah word כשדי — «Chaldean» (Genesis 11:28).
When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
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) — 334. A Torah word with the same number is כשדי — “Chaldean” (Genesis 11:28).
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) — 64. A Torah word with the same number is נטה — “to stretch out, pitch” (Genesis 12:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1370.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 47316.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 996.
The letters that come out are חקגמח — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 159. A Torah word with the same number is קטן — “small” (Genesis 1:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1204.
The number 334 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~1573).
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 — 334. 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. סדריס has 5 letters: ס Samekh, ד Dalet, ר Resh, י Yod, ס Samekh. The first letter is Samekh, the last is Samekh.
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The name סדריס 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
Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with ס and ends with ס. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.
«When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.»
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.
