The name Jehoshabeath in Hebrew letters is יהושבעת. 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.
יהושבעת
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יהושבעת. A Tanakh name: an Israelite woman (first in 2 Chronicles 22:11; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 793 — the same as the Torah word שפחתה, “her maidservant”. That number points to Torah page 85 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 Isaiah 35:1. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Jehoshabeath” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: יהושבעת. 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 יהושבעת gives 793.
793
The number 793 is the Torah word שפחתה — «her maidservant» (Genesis 16:3).
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob: 'How many are the days of the years of thy life?'
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.
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) — 793. A Torah word with the same number is שפחתה — “her maidservant” (Genesis 16:3).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “strength” (Genesis 4:12).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 82. A Torah word with the same number is לבן — “Laban, brother of Rebekah” (Genesis 24:29).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3009.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 255065.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1876.
The letters that come out are מצפבשזא — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 520. A Torah word with the same number is שכר — “wages, reward” (Genesis 15:1).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1346.
The number 793 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 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 — 793. 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. יהושבעת has 7 letters: י Yod, ה He, ו Vav, ש Shin, ב Bet, ע Ayin, ת Tav. The first letter is Yod, the last is Tav.
For an engraving, a sign or a tattoo, show the spelling to someone who reads Hebrew: transliterating a name is a choice, not the only option.
The name יהושבעת 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with י and ends with ת. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 20 such verses. The first of them is Isaiah 35:1:
יששום מדבר וציה ותגל ערבה ותפרח כחבצלת
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
ויסעו מבני יעקן ויחנו בחר הגדגד
Numbers 33:32 · 26 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 793 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
The name יהושבעת has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 793 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.
