The name Iddo in Hebrew letters is עדוא. 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.
עדוא
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is עדוא. A Tanakh name: the name of five Israelites (first in 1 Kings 4:14; 11 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “timely”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 81 — the same as the Torah word אנכי, “I”. That number points to Torah page 81 of 354 — in the portion Vayigash. What that portion is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 29:9. 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 עדוא gives 81.
81
The number 81 is the Torah word אנכי — «I» (Genesis 3:10).
And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?' And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence.
This is from the portion Vayigash. What it is about: Judah pleads for Benjamin; Joseph reveals himself to his brothers; Jacob goes down to Egypt; the family settles in Goshen.
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) — 81. A Torah word with the same number is אנכי — “I” (Genesis 3:10).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 27. A Torah word with the same number is בכה — “to weep” (Genesis 21:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 357. A Torah word with the same number is אנוש — “Enosh, son of Seth” (Genesis 4:26).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4953.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 305. A Torah word with the same number is שה — “lamb, sheep” (Genesis 22:7).
The letters that come out are זקפת — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 587. A Torah word with the same number is מצאתנו — “has befallen us” (Numbers 20:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 687. A Torah word with the same number is מזמרת — “of the choice produce of” (Genesis 43:11).
The number 81 appears in the classical books 26 times across 15 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 — 81. 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. עדוא has 4 letters: ע Ayin, ד Dalet, ו Vav, א Alef. The first letter is Ayin, the last is Alef.
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The name עדוא 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 עדוא these are ע and א. The Pentateuch has 7 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 29:9:
עודנו מדבר עמם ורחל באה עם הצאן אשר לאביה כי רעה הוא
This is from the portion Vayetzei. What it is about: The dream of the ladder to heaven; Jacob with Laban: Leah and Rachel; eleven sons are born; the return.
«And Joseph said unto his brethren: 'I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?' And his brethren could not answer him; for they were affrighted at his presence.»
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.
