The name Cornelius in Hebrew letters is קורנליוס. 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.
קורנליוס
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is קורנליוס. The name Cornelius probably comes from Latin cornu, “horn”. It was the name of an old Roman family. Cornelius Nepos was a Roman writer of the 1st century BCE. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 462 — the same as the Torah word בארלחיראי, “Beer-lahai-roi”. That number points to Torah page 108 of 354 — in the portion Bo. What that portion is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Cornelius” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: קורנליוס. 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 קורנליוס gives 462.
462
The number 462 is the Torah word בארלחיראי — «Beer-lahai-roi» (Genesis 16:14).
And Moses said: 'We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go; for we must hold a feast unto HaShem.'
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
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) — 462. A Torah word with the same number is בארלחיראי — “Beer-lahai-roi” (Genesis 16:14).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “for, because, that” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 102. A Torah word with the same number is בעל — “master, owner” (Genesis 14:13).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2042.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 57172.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2514.
The letters that come out are דפגטכמפח — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 244. A Torah word with the same number is מרד — “to rebel” (Genesis 14:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1040.
The number 462 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is מעשה רוקח על המשנה (~1740).
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 — 462. 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. קורנליוס has 8 letters: ק Qof, ו Vav, ר Resh, נ Nun, ל Lamed, י Yod, ו Vav, ס Samekh. The first letter is Qof, the last is Samekh.
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The name קורנליוס 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 ק and ends with ס. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: קורנליוס = 462. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«And Moses said: 'We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go; for we must hold a feast unto HaShem.'»
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.
