The name Elishua in Hebrew letters is אלישוע. 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.
אלישוע
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אלישוע. A Tanakh name: a son of King David (first in 2 Samuel 5:15; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “God of supplication”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 417 — the same as the Torah word זית, “olive”. That number points to Torah page 63 of 354 — in the portion Vayishlach. What that portion 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 verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 21:10. 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 אלישוע gives 417.
417
The number 417 is the Torah word זית — «olive» (Genesis 8:11).
And these are the children of Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.
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 same number, 417, is given by these Tanakh names:
Batya בתיה
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) — 417. A Torah word with the same number is זית — “olive” (Genesis 8:11).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 66. A Torah word with the same number is כמו — “like, as” (Genesis 19:15).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1602.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 95937.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1178.
The letters that come out are תכמבפז — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 549. A Torah word with the same number is ומגרש — “and pastureland” (Numbers 35:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 707. A Torah word with the same number is ביתנמרה — “Beth-nimrah, town in Gad” (Numbers 32:36).
The number 417 appears in the classical books 13 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 — 417. 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. אלישוע has 6 letters: א Alef, ל Lamed, י Yod, ש Shin, ו Vav, ע Ayin. The first letter is Alef, the last is Ayin.
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The name אלישוע 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 אלישוע these are א and ע. The Pentateuch has 6 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 21:10:
אם אחרת יקח לו שארה כסותה וענתה לא יגרע
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: אלישוע = 417. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
