The name Gor in Hebrew letters is גור. 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.
גור
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גור. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 209 — the same as the Torah word אחר, “after, behind”. That number points to Torah page 209 of 354 — in the portion Emor. What that portion is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Joel 1:20. 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 גור gives 209.
209
The number 209 is the Torah word אחר — «after, behind» (Genesis 5:4).
And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of HaShem.
This is from the portion Emor. What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
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) — 209. A Torah word with the same number is אחר — “after, behind” (Genesis 5:4).
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) — 822. A Torah word with the same number is שבעתים — “sevenfold” (Genesis 4:15).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 40045.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 221. A Torah word with the same number is ארך — “length” (Genesis 6:15).
The letters that come out are רפג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 283. A Torah word with the same number is זכרון — “memorial” (Exodus 12:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 605. A Torah word with the same number is ארפכשד — “Arpachshad, son of Shem” (Genesis 10:22).
The number 209 appears in the classical books 5 times across 5 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 — 209. 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. גור has 3 letters: ג Gimel, ו Vav, ר Resh. The first letter is Gimel, the last is Resh.
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The name גור appears in the Torah as a word 3 times. The first time is Genesis 12:10. Another 3 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ג and ends with ר. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 8 such verses. The first of them is Joel 1:20:
גם בהמות שדה תערוג אליך כי יבשו אפיקי מים ואש אכלה נאות המדבר
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.
