The name Ishbak in Hebrew letters is ישבק. 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.
ישבק
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ישבק. A Tanakh name: a son of Abraham (first in Genesis 25:2; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “he will leave”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 412 — the same as the Torah word בית, “house”. That number points to Torah page 58 of 354 — in the portion Vayishlach. What that portion 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. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is 2 Kings 12:6. 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 ישבק gives 412.
412
The number 412 is the Torah word בית — «house» (Genesis 6:14).
And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city.
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.
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) — 412. A Torah word with the same number is בית — “house” (Genesis 6:14).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “or” (Genesis 24:49).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 52. A Torah word with the same number is בן — “son” (Genesis 3:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1748.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 100104.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1044.
The letters that come out are מבשד — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 346. A Torah word with the same number is שום — “to put, set” (Genesis 2:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 978.
The number 412 appears in the classical books 9 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is מגלה עמוקות על איוב (~1637).
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 — 412. 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. ישבק has 4 letters: י Yod, ש Shin, ב Bet, ק Qof. The first letter is Yod, the last is Qof.
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The name ישבק appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 25:2.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with י and ends with ק. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 8 such verses. The first of them is 2 Kings 12:6:
יקחו להם הכהנים איש מאת מכרו והם יחזקו את בדק הבית לכל אשר ימצא שם בדק
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.
