The name Gleb in Hebrew letters is גלב. 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.
גלב
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גלב. A Russian name from Old Norse Guðleifr, “heir of god”. Prince Gleb of Murom, killed in 1015, is honoured as a saint. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 35 — the same as the Torah word גבל, “to set bounds”. That number points to Torah page 35 of 354 — in the portion Chayei Sarah. What that portion is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:19. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Gleb” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: גלב. 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 גלב gives 35.
35
The number 35 is the Torah word גבל — «to set bounds» (Exodus 19:12).
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan.
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
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) — 35. A Torah word with the same number is גבל — “to set bounds” (Exodus 19:12).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 8. A Torah word with the same number is אהב — “to love” (Genesis 22:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 114. A Torah word with the same number is עמד — “to stand” (Genesis 18:8).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 913.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 71. A Torah word with the same number is מלא — “to fill” (Genesis 1:22).
The letters that come out are רכש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 520. A Torah word with the same number is שכר — “wages, reward” (Genesis 15:1).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 569. A Torah word with the same number is קטנתי — “I am unworthy” (Genesis 32:11).
The number 35 appears in the classical books 16 times across 15 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 — 35. 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. גלב has 3 letters: ג Gimel, ל Lamed, ב Bet. The first letter is Gimel, the last is Bet.
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The name גלב 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 גלב these are ג and ב. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Genesis 49:19:
גד גדוד יגודנו והוא יגד עקב
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
The name גלב has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 35 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.
