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Gazez in Hebrew — גזז, gematria 17

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The name Gazez in Hebrew letters is גזז. 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.

גזז
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גזז. A Tanakh name: name of two Israelites (first in 1 Chronicles 2:46; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “shearer”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 17 — the same as the Torah word טוב, “good”. That number points to Torah page 17 of 354 — in the portion Noach. What that portion is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham. 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 גזז gives 17.
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The number 17 is the Torah word טוב — «good» (Genesis 1:4).

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This number is shared with 1 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

Tov, “good”, is 17; Jacob's seventeen years in Egypt (Genesis 47:28).
The number 17, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 17 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis).
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 11:25:
וַיְחִי נָחוֹר אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־תֶּרַח תְּשַׁע־עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה וּמְאַת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנוֹת ס
And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
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.
with finals, reduced and ordinal — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 62. A Torah word with the same number is בין — “between” (Genesis 1:4).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 107. A Torah word with the same number is גלעד — “Gilead, region east of Jordan” (Genesis 31:21).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “for, because, that” (Genesis 1:4).
The letters that come out are רעע — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 340. A Torah word with the same number is שם — “there” (Genesis 2:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 217. A Torah word with the same number is אורי — “Uri, father of Bezalel” (Exodus 31:2).
The number 17 appears in the classical books 52 times across 29 works. The earliest mention is ילקוט שמעוני (~1260).
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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 — 17. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
How to write Gazez in Hebrew

Hebrew is written from right to left. גזז has 3 letters: ג Gimel, ז Zayin, ז Zayin. The first letter is Gimel, the last is Zayin.

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The name גזז does not stand as a separate word in the Torah, but appears 1 time with prefixes — first in Genesis 31:19.
The verse of your name
Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with ג and ends with ז. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.

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Your name's day

Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: גזז = 17. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-08-1714 Av 5787in 297 days
The verse of that day

וַיְחִי נָחוֹר אַחֲרֵי הוֹלִידוֹ אֶת־תֶּרַח תְּשַׁע־עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה וּמְאַת שָׁנָה וַיּוֹלֶד בָּנִים וּבָנוֹת ס

«And Nahor lived after he begot Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.»

Bereshit (Genesis) 11:25 · 17 / 354

Half of all names have such a day.

Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.

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Gazez — גזז

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Names with the same number, 17

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Other names on Torah page 17

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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.

Binyamin Pichkhadze, «Chumash 354» (חומש 354), Bnei Brak, 2002 · Addition, not prophecy.

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