The name Dishon in Hebrew letters is דישון. 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.
דישון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דישון. A Tanakh name: the name of two Edomites (first in Genesis 36:21; 7 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 370 — the same as the Torah word שלם, “peace offering”. That number points to Torah page 16 of 354 — in the portion Noach. What that portion is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 23:10. 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 דישון gives 370.
370
The number 370 is the Torah word שלם — «peace offering» (Exodus 20:24).
And HaShem said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
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) — 1020.
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) — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to go, walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1376. A Torah word with the same number is עשתרות — “Ashtaroth, city of Og” (Deuteronomy 1:4).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92652.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1022.
The letters that come out are קמבפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 231. A Torah word with the same number is וצפנה — “and northward” (Genesis 28:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 932.
The number 370 appears in the classical books 30 times across 16 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 370. 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. דישון has 5 letters: ד Dalet, י Yod, ש Shin, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Dalet, the last is final Nun.
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The name דישון 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 דישון these are ד and נ. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Leviticus 23:10:
דבר אל בני ישראל ואמרת אלהם כי תבאו אל הארץ אשר אני נתן לכם וקצרתם את קצירה והבאתם את עמר ראשית קצירכם אל הכהן
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 HaShem said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.»
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.
