The name Filippo in Hebrew letters is פיליפו. 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.
פיליפו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פיליפו. The name Filippo comes from Greek philos + hippos, “friend of horses”. It is the Italian form of Philip. The architect Filippo Brunelleschi built the dome of Florence cathedral in the 15th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 216 — the same as the Torah word אזרח, “native”. That number points to Torah page 216 of 354 — in the portion Bechukotai. What that portion is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 34:15. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Filippo” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: פיליפו. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name פיליפו gives 216.
216
The number 216 is the Torah word אזרח — «native» (Exodus 12:19).
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto HaShem, all that any man giveth of such unto HaShem shall be holy.
This is from the portion Bechukotai. What it is about: “If you walk in My statutes”: blessings for faithfulness and admonitions; vows and valuations; the tithe.
The same number, 216, is given by these Tanakh names:
Arie אריה
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) — 216. A Torah word with the same number is אזרח — “native” (Exodus 12:19).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 27. A Torah word with the same number is בכה — “to weep” (Genesis 21:16).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 72. A Torah word with the same number is חסד — “kindness, mercy” (Genesis 19:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1046.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 13936.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 846. A Torah word with the same number is תולדות — “generations” (Genesis 2:4).
The letters that come out are ומכמופ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 192. A Torah word with the same number is קבץ — “to gather” (Genesis 41:35).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 288. A Torah word with the same number is פרח — “to bud, blossom” (Genesis 40:10).
The number 216 appears in the classical books 82 times across 41 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 — 216. 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. פיליפו has 6 letters: פ Pe, י Yod, ל Lamed, י Yod, פ Pe, ו Vav. The first letter is Pe, the last is Vav.
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The name פיליפו 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 פיליפו these are פ and ו. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Exodus 34:15:
פן תכרת ברית ליושב הארץ וזנו אחרי אלהיהם וזבחו לאלהיהם וקרא לך ואכלת מזבחו
This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: פיליפו = 216. 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.
