The name Dinis in Hebrew letters is דיניש. 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.
דיניש
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דיניש. The name Dinis comes from Greek Dionysos, “belonging to Dionysus, god of wine”. It is the Portuguese form of Denis. King Dinis ruled Portugal from 1279 to 1325 and founded its first university. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 374 — the same as the Torah word עדש, “lentil”. That number points to Torah page 20 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 23:24. 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 דיניש gives 374.
374
The number 374 is the Torah word עדש — «lentil» (Genesis 25:34).
And they turned back, and came to En-mishpat--the same is Kadesh--and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
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) — 374. A Torah word with the same number is עדש — “lentil” (Genesis 25:34).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1410.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92716.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 530. A Torah word with the same number is שכיר — “hired worker” (Exodus 12:45).
The letters that come out are קמטמב — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 191. A Torah word with the same number is המקום — “the place” (Genesis 13:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 940. A Torah word with the same number is צמיתת — “permanence, perpetuity” (Leviticus 25:23).
The number 374 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is נזיר ז ב.
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 — 374. 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. דיניש has 5 letters: ד Dalet, י Yod, נ Nun, י Yod, ש Shin. The first letter is Dalet, the last is Shin.
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The name דיניש 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 דיניש these are ד and ש. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Leviticus 23:24:
דבר אל בני ישראל לאמר בחדש השביעי באחד לחדש יהיה לכם שבתון זכרון תרועה מקרא קדש
This is from the portion Emor. What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
«And they turned back, and came to En-mishpat--the same is Kadesh--and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.»
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.
