The name Graham in Hebrew letters is גראם. 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.
גראם
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גראם. A Scottish surname that goes back to the English town of Grantham, “gravelly homestead”. Graham Greene and Graham Bell carried it. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 244 — the same as the Torah word מרד, “to rebel”. That number points to Torah page 244 of 354 — in the portion Behaalotcha. What that portion is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 1:37. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Graham” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: גראם. 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 גראם gives 244.
244
The number 244 is the Torah word מרד — «to rebel» (Genesis 14:4).
And Aaron said unto Moses: 'Oh my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned.
This is from the portion Behaalotcha. What it is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat.
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) — 804. A Torah word with the same number is תשמטנה — “you shall let it rest” (Exodus 23:11).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 37. A Torah word with the same number is גדל — “to grow, be great” (Genesis 12:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 947.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 41610.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 654. A Torah word with the same number is תוגרמה — “Togarmah, son of Gomer” (Genesis 10:3).
The letters that come out are רגתי — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 613. A Torah word with the same number is וזרת — “and a span” (Exodus 28:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 784. A Torah word with the same number is מתושלח — “Methuselah, son of Enoch” (Genesis 5:21).
The number 244 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is זהר חדש (מנוקד).
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 — 244. 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. גראם has 4 letters: ג Gimel, ר Resh, א Alef, ם final Mem. The first letter is Gimel, the last is final Mem.
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The name גראם 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 גראם these are ג and מ. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 1:37:
גם בי התאנף ה׳ בגללכם לאמר גם אתה לא תבא שם
This is from the portion Devarim. What it is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og.
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.
