The name Jehosheba in Hebrew letters is יהושבע. 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.
יהושבע
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יהושבע. A Tanakh name: an Israelite woman (first in 2 Kings 11:2; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “sworn by God”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 393. That number points to Torah page 39 of 354 — in the portion Chayei Sarah. What that portion 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 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.
You wrote “Jehosheba” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: יהושבע. 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 יהושבע gives 393.
And she said unto the servant: 'What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?' And the servant said: 'It is my master.' And she took her veil, and covered herself.
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.
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) — 393.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 24. A Torah word with the same number is חוי — “Hivite” (Genesis 10:17).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 60. A Torah word with the same number is ילך — “he will go” (Genesis 3:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1514.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 95065.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1083.
The letters that come out are מצפבשז — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 519. A Torah word with the same number is גשורי — “Geshurite” (Deuteronomy 3:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 940. A Torah word with the same number is צמיתת — “permanence, perpetuity” (Leviticus 25:23).
The number 393 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is ילקוט שמעוני (~1260).
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 — 393. 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. יהושבע has 6 letters: י Yod, ה He, ו Vav, ש Shin, ב Bet, ע Ayin. The first letter is Yod, the last is Ayin.
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The name יהושבע 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 יהושבע 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.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: יהושבע = 393. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«And she said unto the servant: 'What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?' And the servant said: 'It is my master.' And she took her veil, and covered herself.»
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.
