The name Chedva in Hebrew letters is חדווה. 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.
חדווה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is חדווה. A Tanakh word: “joy” (first in Ezra 6:16). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 29 — the same as the Torah word דכה, “crushed”. That number points to Torah page 29 of 354 — in the portion Vayera. What that portion is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 25:15. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Chedva” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: חדווה. 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 חדווה gives 29.
29
The number 29 is the Torah word דכה — «crushed» (Deuteronomy 23:2).
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger: 'Behold, I lay yesternight with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
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.
with finals, reduced and ordinal — 29. A Torah word with the same number is דכה — “crushed” (Deuteronomy 23:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 103. A Torah word with the same number is מנחה — “offering, gift” (Genesis 4:3).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 177. A Torah word with the same number is בקעה — “valley, plain” (Genesis 11:2).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 91. A Torah word with the same number is מלאך — “messenger, angel” (Genesis 16:7).
The letters that come out are סקפפצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 410. A Torah word with the same number is שמע — “to hear” (Genesis 3:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 882.
The number 29 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is שער הכוונות (~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 — 29. 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. חדווה has 5 letters: ח Chet, ד Dalet, ו Vav, ו Vav, ה He. The first letter is Chet, the last is He.
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The name חדווה 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 חדווה these are ח and ה. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 25:15:
חדד ותימא יטור נפיש וקדמה
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.
«And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger: 'Behold, I lay yesternight with my father. Let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.'»
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.
