The name Gunilla in Hebrew letters is גנילה. 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.
גנילה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is גנילה. Gunilla is a name of Old Norse origin. It comes from the words “gunnr” and “hildr”, which mean “war” and “battle”. The name is used in Sweden. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 98 — the same as the Torah word סלח, “to forgive”. That number points to Torah page 98 of 354 — in the portion Shemot. What that portion is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 32:16. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Gunilla” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: גנילה. 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 גנילה gives 98.
98
The number 98 is the Torah word סלח — «to forgive» (Exodus 34:9).
And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh: 'Thus saith HaShem, the G-d of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in the wilderness.'
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
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) — 98. A Torah word with the same number is סלח — “to forgive” (Exodus 34:9).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 44. A Torah word with the same number is ילד — “to bear, give birth” (Genesis 3:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 376. A Torah word with the same number is עשו — “Esau, son of Isaac” (Genesis 25:25).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3534.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 310. A Torah word with the same number is חשב — “to reckon, think” (Genesis 15:6).
The letters that come out are רטמכצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 359. A Torah word with the same number is נטש — “to leave, allow” (Genesis 31:28).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 289. A Torah word with the same number is פטר — “firstling opening the womb” (Exodus 13:2).
The number 98 appears in the classical books 10 times across 7 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 — 98. 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. גנילה has 5 letters: ג Gimel, נ Nun, י Yod, ל Lamed, ה He. The first letter is Gimel, the last is He.
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The name גנילה 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 גנילה these are ג and ה. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 32:16:
גמלים מיניקות ובניהם שלשים פרות ארבעים ופרים עשרה אתנת עשרים ועירם עשרה
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
The name גנילה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 98 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.
