The name Hoshama in Hebrew letters is הושמע. 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.
הושמע
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is הושמע. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 3:18; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “God has heard”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 421 — the same as the Torah word אתך, “with you”. That number points to Torah page 67 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 16:21. 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 הושמע gives 421.
421
The number 421 is the Torah word אתך — «with you» (Genesis 6:18).
And he said: 'What pledge shall I give thee?' And she said: 'Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand.' And he gave them to her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
The same number, 421, is given by these Tanakh names:
Itai איתי
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) — 421. A Torah word with the same number is אתך — “with you” (Genesis 6:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 25. A Torah word with the same number is כה — “thus, so” (Genesis 15:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 61. A Torah word with the same number is אני — “I” (Genesis 6:17).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1601.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 96561.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1099.
The letters that come out are צפביז — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 189. A Torah word with the same number is פקדה — “oversight, visitation” (Numbers 3:32).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 588.
The number 421 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is בן יהוידע (~1900).
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 — 421. 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. הושמע has 5 letters: ה He, ו Vav, ש Shin, מ Mem, ע Ayin. The first letter is He, the last is Ayin.
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The name הושמע 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 הושמע these are ה and ע. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Numbers 16:21:
הבדלו מתוך העדה הזאת ואכלה אתם כרגע
This is from the portion Korach. What it is about: Korah's rebellion; Aaron's staff blossoms; the duties of the priests and Levites; the priestly gifts.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
ונח מצא חן בעיני ה׳
Genesis 6:8 · 17 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 421 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
«And he said: 'What pledge shall I give thee?' And she said: 'Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand.' And he gave them to her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.»
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.
