The name Iokhanan in Hebrew letters is איוחנן. 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.
איוחנן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is איוחנן. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 125 — the same as the Torah word ענה, “to answer, afflict”. That number points to Torah page 125 of 354 — in the portion Yitro. What that portion is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 36:27. 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 איוחנן gives 125.
125
The number 125 is the Torah word ענה — «to answer, afflict» (Genesis 18:27).
And HaShem said unto Moses: 'Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto HaShem to gaze, and many of them perish.
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
The same number, 125, is given by these Tanakh names:
Noa נעה
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) — 775. A Torah word with the same number is תעשה — “you shall make” (Genesis 6:14).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 26. A Torah word with the same number is והיה — “and it became” (Genesis 2:10).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 53. A Torah word with the same number is אבן — “stone” (Genesis 2:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 503. A Torah word with the same number is גרש — “to drive out” (Genesis 3:24).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5201.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 254. A Torah word with the same number is חמור — “donkey” (Genesis 12:16).
The letters that come out are תמפסטט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 598. A Torah word with the same number is תובלקין — “Tubal-cain, son of Lamech” (Genesis 4:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 773.
The number 125 appears in the classical books 10 times across 8 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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 — 125. 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. איוחנן has 6 letters: א Alef, י Yod, ו Vav, ח Chet, נ Nun, ן final Nun. The first letter is Alef, the last is final Nun.
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The name איוחנן 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 איוחנן these are א and נ. The Pentateuch has 35 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 36:27:
אלה בני אצר בלהן וזעון ועקן
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: איוחנן = 125. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
