Elizabeth — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Elizabeth in Hebrew letters is אלישבע. 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.
אלישבע
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אלישבע. “My God is an oath.” Aaron’s wife (Exodus 6:23); Elizabeth comes from this name. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 413 — the same as the Torah word גבחת, “baldness in the forehead”. That number points to Torah page 59 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. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name אלישבע gives 413.
413
The number 413 is the Torah word גבחת — «baldness in the forehead» (Leviticus 13:42).
The number 413, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 59 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
לעם אחד ואם לא תשמעו אלינו להמול ולקחנו …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 34:16:
וְנָתַנּוּ אֶת־בְּנֹתֵינוּ לָכֶם וְאֶת־בְּנֹתֵיכֶם נִקַּח־לָנוּ וְיָשַׁבְנוּ אִתְּכֶם וְהָיִינוּ לְעַם אֶחָד
then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
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, 413, is given by these biblical names:
אלישבע
Nine 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) — 413. A Torah word with the same number is גבחת — “baldness in the forehead” (Leviticus 13:42).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 62. A Torah word with the same number is בין — “between” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1584.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 95905.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1170.
The word that comes out is תכמבשז. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 769.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1107.
The number 413 appears in the classical books 4 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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The name אלישבע appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Exodus 6:23.
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 אלישבע 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”.
Nine 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) — 413. A Torah word with the same number is גבחת — “baldness in the forehead” (Leviticus 13:42).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 62. A Torah word with the same number is בין — “between” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1584.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 95905.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1170.
The word that comes out is תכמבשז. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 769.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1107.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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Other names
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How it is counted
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.
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