The name Hodaya in Hebrew letters is הודיה. 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.
הודיה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is הודיה. Hodaya is a Hebrew name from the root “hodah”, “to give thanks”, with the short form of God's name; it means “thanks to God”. A man named Hodiah appears in the book of Nehemiah. This is its Hebrew spelling from the Tanakh. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 30 — the same as the Torah word כי, “for, because, that”. That number points to Torah page 30 of 354 — in the portion Vayera. What that portion is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 10:9. 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 הודיה gives 30.
30
The number 30 is the Torah word כי — «for, because, that» (Genesis 1:4).
And Abraham said: 'Because I thought: Surely the fear of G-d is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
The same number, 30, is given by these Tanakh names:
Judah יהודה
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 and ordinal — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “for, because, that” (Genesis 1:4).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 116. A Torah word with the same number is נוס — “to flee” (Genesis 14:10).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 202. A Torah word with the same number is רב — “many, great” (Genesis 6:5).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 86. A Torah word with the same number is אלהים — “God” (Genesis 1:1).
The letters that come out are צפקמצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 400. A Torah word with the same number is שנים — “two” (Genesis 1:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 478. A Torah word with the same number is חצרעינן — “Hazar-enan” (Numbers 34:9).
The number 30 appears in the classical books 46 times across 34 works. The earliest mention is ברית עולם על ספר חסידים (~1200).
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 — 30. 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. הודיה has 5 letters: ה He, ו Vav, ד Dalet, י Yod, ה He. The first letter is He, the last is He.
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The name הודיה 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 הודיה these are ה and ה. The Pentateuch has 26 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 10:9:
הוא היה גבר ציד לפני ה׳ על כן יאמר כנמרד גבור ציד לפני ה׳
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.
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.
