The name Gavin in Hebrew letters is גבין. 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.
גבין
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גבין. Scottish form of Gawain, the name of a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. Its Welsh origin is disputed. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 65 — the same as the Torah word אדני, “my Lord”. That number points to Torah page 65 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 28:50. 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 גבין gives 65.
65
The number 65 is the Torah word אדני — «my Lord» (Genesis 15:2).
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say: An evil beast hath devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams.'
This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
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) — 715. A Torah word with the same number is כפתריה — “its knobs” (Exodus 25:31).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 29. A Torah word with the same number is דכה — “crushed” (Deuteronomy 23:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 259. A Torah word with the same number is ראובן — “Reuben, son of Jacob” (Genesis 29:32).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 2613.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 88. A Torah word with the same number is נחל — “stream, wadi” (Genesis 26:17).
The letters that come out are רשמט — 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) — 621. A Torah word with the same number is ראיתי — “I have seen” (Genesis 7:1).
The number 65 appears in the classical books 129 times across 45 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 — 65. 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. גבין has 4 letters: ג Gimel, ב Bet, י Yod, ן final Nun. The first letter is Gimel, the last is final Nun.
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The name גבין 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 גבין these are ג and נ. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 28:50:
גוי עז פנים אשר לא ישא פנים לזקן ונער לא יחן
This is from the portion Ki Tavo. What it is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions.
The name גבין has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 65 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.
