The name Jaakobah in Hebrew letters is יעקבה. 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.
יעקבה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יעקבה. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 4:36; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 187 — the same as the Torah word מספוא, “fodder”. That number points to Torah page 187 of 354 — in the portion Tazria. What that portion is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 33:14. 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 יעקבה gives 187.
187
The number 187 is the Torah word מספוא — «fodder» (Genesis 24:25).
And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.
This is from the portion Tazria. What it is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection.
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) — 187. A Torah word with the same number is מספוא — “fodder” (Genesis 24:25).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
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) — 993.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 15029.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 639. A Torah word with the same number is והתברכו — “and they shall be blessed” (Genesis 22:18).
The letters that come out are מזדשצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 441. A Torah word with the same number is אמת — “truth, faithfulness” (Genesis 24:27).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 754. A Torah word with the same number is ומשחת — “and you shall anoint” (Exodus 28:41).
The number 187 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is דרושי שער הכוונות (~1573).
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 — 187. 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. יעקבה has 5 letters: י Yod, ע Ayin, ק Qof, ב Bet, ה He. The first letter is Yod, the last is He.
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The name יעקבה 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 יעקבה these are י and ה. The Pentateuch has 10 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 33:14:
יעבר נא אדני לפני עבדו ואני אתנהלה לאטי לרגל המלאכה אשר לפני ולרגל הילדים עד אשר אבא אל אדני שעירה
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.
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.
