The name Debra in Hebrew letters is דברה. 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.
דברה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דברה. The name comes from Hebrew: from דבורה, Deborah; in the Tanakh, the name of two Hebrew women (Genesis 35:8). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 211 — the same as the Torah word ירא, “to fear”. That number points to Torah page 211 of 354 — in the portion Behar. What that portion is about: “On the mountain”: the sabbatical year and the jubilee; the land is not sold forever; redemption of land and servants; the ban on interest. 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 דברה gives 211.
211
The number 211 is the Torah word ירא — «to fear» (Genesis 3:10).
And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient means to redeem it;
This is from the portion Behar. What it is about: “On the mountain”: the sabbatical year and the jubilee; the land is not sold forever; redemption of land and servants; the ban on interest.
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) — 211. A Torah word with the same number is ירא — “to fear” (Genesis 3:10).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 31. A Torah word with the same number is אל — “to, toward” (Genesis 1:9).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 823. A Torah word with the same number is תחתיה — “in its place” (Leviticus 13:23).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40045.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 427. A Torah word with the same number is אותך — “you” (Genesis 17:2).
The letters that come out are קשגצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 493. A Torah word with the same number is הפתח — “the entrance” (Genesis 19:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1362.
The number 211 appears in the classical books 9 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 211. 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. דברה has 4 letters: ד Dalet, ב Bet, ר Resh, ה He. The first letter is Dalet, the last is He.
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The name דברה appears in the Torah as a word 2 times. The first time is Genesis 35:8.
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 דברה 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.
