The name Joy in Hebrew letters is ג׳וי. 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׳וי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ג׳וי. The English word joy, from Old French joie and Latin gaudia. It has been used as a girl's name since the 17th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 19 — the same as the Torah word גוי, “nation”. That number points to Torah page 19 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. 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.
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Adding up the letters of the name ג׳וי gives 19.
19
The number 19 is the Torah word גוי — «nation» (Genesis 10:5).
And Abram said unto Lot: 'Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are brethren.
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
The same number, 19, is given by these Tanakh names:
Job איוב · Eve חוה
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.
with finals and ordinal — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 82. A Torah word with the same number is לבן — “Laban, brother of Rebekah” (Genesis 24:29).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 145. A Torah word with the same number is יפנה — “Jephunneh, father of Caleb” (Numbers 13:6).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 31. A Torah word with the same number is אל — “to, toward” (Genesis 1:9).
The letters that come out are רפמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 320. A Torah word with the same number is נער — “young man, boy” (Genesis 14:24).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 115. A Torah word with the same number is חזק — “to be strong, seize” (Genesis 19:16).
The number 19 appears in the classical books 36 times across 21 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 — 19. 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׳וי has 3 letters: ג Gimel, ו Vav, י Yod. The first letter is Gimel, the last is Yod.
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The name ג׳וי appears in the Torah as a word 10 times. The first time is Genesis 12:2. Another 19 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 ג׳וי 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.
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.
