The name Deborah in Hebrew letters is דבורה. 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.
דבורה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דבורה. “Bee.” Prophetess and judge who rallied Israel against Sisera; her song is in Judges 4–5. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 217 — the same as the Torah word אורי, “Uri, father of Bezalel”. That number points to Torah page 217 of 354 — in the portion Bechukotai. What that portion is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 4:2. 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 דבורה gives 217.
217
The number 217 is the Torah word אורי — «Uri, father of Bezalel» (Exodus 31:2).
Howbeit the firstling among beasts, which is born as a firstling to HaShem, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is HaShem'S.
This is from the portion Bechukotai. What it is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe.
The same number, 217, is given by these Tanakh names:
Uri אורי
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) — 217. A Torah word with the same number is אורי — “Uri, father of Bezalel” (Exodus 31:2).
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) — 37. A Torah word with the same number is גדל — “to grow, be great” (Genesis 12:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 844. A Torah word with the same number is בשבעתיכם — “in your Feast of Weeks” (Numbers 28:26).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40081.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 451. A Torah word with the same number is ישמעאל — “Ishmael, son of Abraham” (Genesis 16:11).
The letters that come out are קשפגצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 573. A Torah word with the same number is בראשיכם — “as your heads” (Deuteronomy 1:13).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1374.
The number 217 appears in the classical books 4 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער ספירת העומר (~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 — 217. 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. דבורה has 5 letters: ד Dalet, ב Bet, ו Vav, ר Resh, ה He. The first letter is Dalet, the last is He.
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The name דבורה 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 דבורה these are ד and ה. The Pentateuch has 9 such verses. The first of them is Leviticus 4:2:
דבר אל בני ישראל לאמר נפש כי תחטא בשגגה מכל מצות ה׳ אשר לא תעשינה ועשה מאחת מהנה
This is from the portion Vayikra. What it is about: “And He called”: the burnt, grain, peace, sin and guilt offerings — the order of the sacrifices.
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.
