The name Hoshea in Hebrew letters is הושע. 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.
הושע
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is הושע. A Tanakh name: the name of five Israelites (first in Numbers 13:8; 16 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “deliverer”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 381 — the same as the Torah word שמאלי, “left”. That number points to Torah page 27 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 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 הושע gives 381.
381
The number 381 is the Torah word שמאלי — «left» (Leviticus 14:15).
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
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.
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) — 381. A Torah word with the same number is שמאלי — “left” (Leviticus 14:15).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 48. A Torah word with the same number is יובל — “ram's horn, jubilee” (Exodus 19:13).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1456.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 94961.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 708.
The letters that come out are צפבז — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 179. A Torah word with the same number is מקלט — “refuge” (Numbers 35:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 508. A Torah word with the same number is חרש — “to be silent; plow” (Genesis 24:21).
The number 381 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 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 — 381. 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. הושע has 4 letters: ה He, ו Vav, ש Shin, ע Ayin. The first letter is He, the last is Ayin.
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The name הושע appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Nombres 13:8. Another 2 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 הושע 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
לגד אליסף בן דעואל
Numbers 1:14 · 15 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 381 — 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.
«But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.»
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.
