The name Jada in Hebrew letters is ידע. 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.
ידע
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ידע. A Tanakh name: the name of an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 2:28; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “knowing”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 84 — the same as the Torah word ידע, “to know”. That number points to Torah page 84 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 31:29. 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 ידע gives 84.
84
The number 84 is the Torah word ידע — «to know» (Genesis 3:5).
And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
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.
The same number, 84, is given by these Tanakh names:
Enoch חנוך
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) — 84. A Torah word with the same number is ידע — “to know” (Genesis 3:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 12. A Torah word with the same number is הוא — “he, it” (Genesis 2:11).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 30. A Torah word with the same number is כי — “for, because, that” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 390. A Torah word with the same number is שמן — “oil” (Genesis 28:18).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5016.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 108. A Torah word with the same number is חק — “statute, allotted portion” (Genesis 47:22).
The letters that come out are מקז — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 147. A Torah word with the same number is צאנו — “his flock” (Genesis 4:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 584. A Torah word with the same number is פקדת — “oversight of” (Numbers 3:32).
The number 84 appears in the classical books 24 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 — 84. 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. ידע has 3 letters: י Yod, ד Dalet, ע Ayin. The first letter is Yod, the last is Ayin.
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The name ידע appears in the Torah as a word 21 times. The first time is Genesis 3:5. Another 8 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 ידע these are י and ע. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 31:29:
יש לאל ידי לעשות עמכם רע ואלהי אביכם אמש אמר אלי לאמר השמר לך מדבר עם יעקב מטוב עד רע
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 the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.»
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.
