The name Joash in Hebrew letters is יואש. 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.
יואש
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יואש. A Tanakh name: the name of six Israelites (first in Judges 6:11; 47 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 317 — the same as the Torah word שחט, “to slaughter”. That number points to Torah page 317 of 354 — in the portion Re'eh. What that portion is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Ezekiel 34:6. 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 יואש gives 317.
317
The number 317 is the Torah word שחט — «to slaughter» (Genesis 22:10).
Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of HaShem.
This is from the portion Re'eh. What it is about: “See”: blessing and curse; one place of worship; the tithe; permitted food; the three pilgrimage festivals.
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) — 317. A Torah word with the same number is שחט — “to slaughter” (Genesis 22:10).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to uncover” (Genesis 9:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1172.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 90137.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 360. A Torah word with the same number is שני — “second” (Genesis 1:8).
The letters that come out are מפתב — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 522. A Torah word with the same number is בנתיכם — “your daughters” (Genesis 34:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 503. A Torah word with the same number is גרש — “to drive out” (Genesis 3:24).
The number 317 appears in the classical books 5 times across 5 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 — 317. 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. יואש has 4 letters: י Yod, ו Vav, א Alef, ש Shin. The first letter is Yod, the last is Shin.
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The name יואש 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 ש. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 8 such verses. The first of them is Ezekiel 34:6:
ישגו צאני בכל ההרים ועל כל גבעה רמה ועל כל פני הארץ נפצו צאני ואין דורש ואין מבקש
«Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of HaShem.»
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.
