The name Ishod in Hebrew letters is אישהוד. 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.
אישהוד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אישהוד. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 7:18; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “man of renown”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 326 — the same as the Torah word נעור, “youth”. That number points to Torah page 326 of 354 — in the portion Shoftim. What that portion is about: Judges and officers; “justice, justice shall you pursue”; the king and his scroll; cities of refuge; witnesses; laws of war. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 15:1. 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 אישהוד gives 326.
326
The number 326 is the Torah word נעור — «youth» (Genesis 8:21).
according to all that thou didst desire of HaShem thy G-d in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying: 'Let me not hear again the voice of HaShem my G-d, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.'
This is from the portion Shoftim. What it is about: Judges and officers; “justice, justice shall you pursue”; the king and his scroll; cities of refuge; witnesses; laws of war.
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) — 326. A Torah word with the same number is נעור — “youth” (Genesis 8:21).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “perhaps” (Genesis 16:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1197.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 90178.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1287.
The letters that come out are תמבצפק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 712. A Torah word with the same number is יבשת — “dry land” (Exodus 4:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 943.
The number 326 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 works. The earliest mention is מגלה עמוקות (~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 — 326. 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. אישהוד has 6 letters: א Alef, י Yod, ש Shin, ה He, ו Vav, ד Dalet. The first letter is Alef, the last is Dalet.
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The name אישהוד 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 אישהוד these are א and ד. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 15:1:
אחר הדברים האלה היה דבר ה׳ אל אברם במחזה לאמר אל תירא אברם אנכי מגן לך שכרך הרבה מאד
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: אישהוד = 326. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«according to all that thou didst desire of HaShem thy G-d in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying: 'Let me not hear again the voice of HaShem my G-d, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.'»
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.
