The name Jashobeam in Hebrew letters is ישבעם. 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.
ישבעם
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ישבעם. A Tanakh name: the name of two or three Israelites (first in 1 Chronicles 11:11; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “people will return”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 422 — the same as the Torah word שבעים, “seventy”. That number points to Torah page 68 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 24:7. 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 ישבעם gives 422.
422
The number 422 is the Torah word שבעים — «seventy» (Genesis 4:24).
And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him. And he appointed him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
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) — 982.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 62. A Torah word with the same number is בין — “between” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1623.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 96604.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1436.
The letters that come out are מבשזי — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 359. A Torah word with the same number is נטש — “to leave, allow” (Genesis 31:28).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1002.
The number 422 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 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 — 422. 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. ישבעם has 5 letters: י Yod, ש Shin, ב Bet, ע Ayin, ם final Mem. The first letter is Yod, the last is final Mem.
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The name ישבעם 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 ישבעם these are י and מ. The Pentateuch has 9 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 24:7:
ה׳ אלהי השמים אשר לקחני מבית אבי ומארץ מולדתי ואשר דבר לי ואשר נשבע לי לאמר לזרעך אתן את הארץ הזאת הוא ישלח מלאכו לפניך ולקחת אשה לבני משם
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
«And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him. And he appointed him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.»
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.
