The name Joshebbasshebeth in Hebrew letters is ישב. 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.
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In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ישב. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 2 Samuel 23:8; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “sitting in the seat”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 312 — the same as the Torah word ישב, “to sit, dwell”. That number points to Torah page 312 of 354 — in the portion Eikev. What that portion is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 15:6. 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 ישב gives 312.
312
The number 312 is the Torah word ישב — «to sit, dwell» (Genesis 4:16).
Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; HaShem is his inheritance, according as HaShem thy G-d spoke unto him.--
This is from the portion Eikev. What it is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema.
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) — 312. A Torah word with the same number is ישב — “to sit, dwell” (Genesis 4:16).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 6. A Torah word with the same number is בד — “alone, apart” (Genesis 2:18).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 33. A Torah word with the same number is גל — “heap of stones” (Genesis 31:46).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1153.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 90104.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 632. A Torah word with the same number is בכרתי — “my birthright” (Genesis 27:36).
The letters that come out are מבש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 342. A Torah word with the same number is בשם — “spice, fragrance” (Exodus 25:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 792. A Torah word with the same number is תשבץ — “checkered work” (Exodus 28:4).
The number 312 appears in the classical books 18 times across 14 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 — 312. 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. ישב has 3 letters: י Yod, ש Shin, ב Bet. The first letter is Yod, the last is Bet.
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The name ישב appears in the Torah as a word 22 times. The first time is Genesis 4:16. Another 71 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 ישב these are י and ב. The Pentateuch has 5 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 15:6:
ימינך ה׳ נאדרי בכח ימינך ה׳ תרעץ אויב
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.
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.
