The name Jeduthun in Hebrew letters is ידותון. 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.
ידותון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ידותון. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in Psalms 39:1; 20 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 476 — the same as the Torah word תמול, “yesterday, before”. That number points to Torah page 122 of 354 — in the portion Yitro. What that portion is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 1:3. 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 ידותון gives 476.
476
The number 476 is the Torah word תמול — «yesterday, before» (Genesis 31:2).
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
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) — 1126.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 26. A Torah word with the same number is והיה — “and it became” (Genesis 2:10).
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) — 1797.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 162688.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1366.
The letters that come out are מקפאפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 310. A Torah word with the same number is חשב — “to reckon, think” (Genesis 15:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 990.
The number 476 appears in the classical books 8 times across 6 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 476. 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. ידותון has 6 letters: י Yod, ד Dalet, ו Vav, ת Tav, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Yod, the last is final Nun.
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The name ידותון 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 ידותון these are י and נ. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 1:3:
יששכר זבולן ובנימן
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: ידותון = 476. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
