The name Frederico in Hebrew letters is פרדריקו. 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.
פרדריקו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פרדריקו. The name Frederico comes from Old Germanic fridu + rihhi, “peace and ruler”. It is the Portuguese form of Frederick. The same name is Federico in Spanish and Italian and Friedrich in German. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 600 — the same as the Torah word שש, “six”. That number points to Torah page 246 of 354 — in the portion Shlach. What that portion is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit. 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 “Frederico” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: פרדריקו. 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 פרדריקו gives 600.
600
The number 600 is the Torah word שש — «six» (Genesis 7:6).
And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
This is from the portion Shlach. What it is about: The twelve spies; forty years for forty days; challah and tzitzit.
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) — 600. A Torah word with the same number is שש — “six” (Genesis 7:6).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 24. A Torah word with the same number is חוי — “Hivite” (Genesis 10:17).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 96. A Torah word with the same number is מלאכה — “work” (Genesis 2:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2676.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 96552.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2816.
The letters that come out are וגקגמדפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 236. A Torah word with the same number is כיור — “basin, laver” (Exodus 30:18).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1753.
The number 600 appears in the classical books 19 times across 12 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 600. 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. פרדריקו has 7 letters: פ Pe, ר Resh, ד Dalet, ר Resh, י Yod, ק Qof, ו Vav. The first letter is Pe, the last is Vav.
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The name פרדריקו 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 פרדריקו 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.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
ועל צבא מטה בני זבולן אליאב בן חלון
Numbers 10:16 · 28 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 600 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
The name פרדריקו has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 600 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.
