The name Ida in Hebrew letters is אידא. 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.
אידא
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אידא. Ida is a name of Germanic origin. It probably comes from the word “id”, which means “work”. The name is used in Germany, Sweden and the United States. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 16 — the same as the Torah word אחז, “to seize”. That number points to Torah page 16 of 354 — in the portion Noach. What that portion 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. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 24:45. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Ida” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: אידא. 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 אידא gives 16.
16
The number 16 is the Torah word אחז — «to seize» (Genesis 22:13).
And HaShem said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
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.
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 — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “or” (Genesis 24:49).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 67. A Torah word with the same number is אבידן — “Abidan, chief of Benjamin” (Numbers 1:11).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 118. A Torah word with the same number is חיק — “bosom” (Genesis 16:5).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 43. A Torah word with the same number is גם — “also” (Genesis 3:6).
The letters that come out are תמקת — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 940. A Torah word with the same number is צמיתת — “permanence, perpetuity” (Leviticus 25:23).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 676. A Torah word with the same number is שלשום — “day before yesterday” (Genesis 31:2).
The number 16 appears in the classical books 16 times across 10 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 — 16. 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. אידא has 4 letters: א Alef, י Yod, ד Dalet, א Alef. The first letter is Alef, the last is Alef.
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The name אידא 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 אידא these are א and א. The Pentateuch has 8 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 24:45:
אני טרם אכלה לדבר אל לבי והנה רבקה יצאת וכדה על שכמה ותרד העינה ותשאב ואמר אליה השקיני נא
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
«And HaShem said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.»
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.
