The name Jeffrey in Hebrew letters is ג׳פרי. 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.
ג׳פרי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ג׳פרי. A spelling of Geoffrey, a Germanic name brought to England by the Normans; its second part is frid, “peace”, the first is uncertain. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 293. That number points to Torah page 293 of 354 — in the portion Devarim. What that portion is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 23:4. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Jeffrey” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ג׳פרי. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name ג׳פרי gives 293.
and ye murmured in your tents, and said: 'Because HaShem hated us, He hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
This is from the portion Devarim. What it is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og.
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) — 293.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 50. A Torah word with the same number is כל — “all, every” (Genesis 1:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1261.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 46509.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 662. A Torah word with the same number is מרכבת — “chariots of” (Exodus 15:4).
The letters that come out are רוגמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 249. A Torah word with the same number is טרם — “not yet, before” (Genesis 2:5).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 694. A Torah word with the same number is וממחרת — “and on the next day” (Leviticus 7:16).
The number 293 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 — 293. 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. ג׳פרי has 4 letters: ג Gimel, פ Pe, ר Resh, י Yod. The first letter is Gimel, the last is Yod.
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The name ג׳פרי 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 ג׳פרי these are ג and י. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 23:4:
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.
The name ג׳פרי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 293 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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.
