The name Dov in Hebrew letters is דב. 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.
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In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is דב. A Hebrew name, דב, the word for “bear”. Among Ashkenazi Jews it was paired with the Yiddish Ber, as in the double name Dov-Ber. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 6 — the same as the Torah word בד, “alone, apart”. That number points to Torah page 6 of 354 — in the portion Bereshit. What that portion is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 11:2. 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 דב gives 6.
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The number 6 is the Torah word בד — «alone, apart» (Genesis 2:18).
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto HaShem.
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
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.
with finals, reduced and ordinal — 6. A Torah word with the same number is בד — “alone, apart” (Genesis 2:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
The letters that come out are קש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 400. A Torah word with the same number is שנים — “two” (Genesis 1:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 846. A Torah word with the same number is תולדות — “generations” (Genesis 2:4).
The number 6 appears in the classical books 22 times across 20 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 — 6. 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. דב has 2 letters: ד Dalet, ב Bet. The first letter is Dalet, the last is Bet.
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The name דב 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 דב these are ד and ב. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Exodus 11:2:
דבר נא באזני העם וישאלו איש מאת רעהו ואשה מאת רעותה כלי כסף וכלי זהב
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
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.
