The name Craig in Hebrew letters is קרייג. 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.
קרייג
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is קרייג. Craig is a personal name of Scottish origin: it comes from the word creag, which means “rock”. Today this name is common in Scotland and in English-speaking countries. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 323 — the same as the Torah word ארבעים, “forty”. That number points to Torah page 323 of 354 — in the portion Re'eh. What that portion is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Craig” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: קרייג. 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 קרייג gives 323.
323
The number 323 is the Torah word ארבעים — «forty» (Genesis 5:13).
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
This is from the portion Re'eh. What it is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals.
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) — 323. A Torah word with the same number is ארבעים — “forty” (Genesis 5:13).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 8. A Torah word with the same number is אהב — “to love” (Genesis 22:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 62. A Torah word with the same number is בין — “between” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1506.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 50209.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1353.
The letters that come out are דגממר — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 287. A Torah word with the same number is בריעה — “Beriah, son of Asher” (Genesis 46:17).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 819. A Torah word with the same number is היתדת — “the pegs” (Exodus 38:20).
The number 323 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. 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 — 323. 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. קרייג has 5 letters: ק Qof, ר Resh, י Yod, י Yod, ג Gimel. The first letter is Qof, the last is Gimel.
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The name קרייג 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 ג. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.
«And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.»
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.
