The name Efrain in Hebrew letters is אפראיין. 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.
אפראיין
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אפראיין. The name comes from Hebrew: from אפרים, Ephraim; in the Tanakh, a son of Joseph; also his tribe (Genesis 41:52). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “double fruit”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 352 — the same as the Torah word קרבן, “offering”. That number points to Torah page 352 of 354 — in the portion Haazinu. What that portion is about: “Give ear”: the song of Haazinu — heaven and earth as witnesses; Moses ascends Mount Nebo. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 36:27. 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 אפראיין gives 352.
352
The number 352 is the Torah word קרבן — «offering» (Leviticus 1:2).
I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'
This is from the portion Haazinu. What it is about: “Give ear”: the song of Haazinu — heaven and earth as witnesses; Moses ascends Mount Nebo.
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) — 1002.
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) — 73. A Torah word with the same number is גמל — “camel” (Genesis 12:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1507.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 49102.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1591.
The letters that come out are תוגתממט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 898.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 959.
The number 352 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~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 — 352. 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. אפראיין has 7 letters: א Alef, פ Pe, ר Resh, א Alef, י Yod, י Yod, ן final Nun. The first letter is Alef, the last is final Nun.
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The name אפראיין 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 אפראיין these are א and נ. The Pentateuch has 35 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 36:27:
אלה בני אצר בלהן וזעון ועקן
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
The name אפראיין has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 352 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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.
