The name Lily in Hebrew letters is לילי. 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.
לילי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לילי. A name of Latin origin, from the word lilium, meaning “lily”. In English it is simply the name of the flower. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 80 — the same as the Torah word עוד, “again, still”. That number points to Torah page 80 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 Exodus 20:3. 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 לילי gives 80.
80
The number 80 is the Torah word עוד — «again, still» (Genesis 4:25).
My lord asked his servants, saying: Have ye a father, or a brother?
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) — 80. A Torah word with the same number is עוד — “again, still” (Genesis 4:25).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 8. A Torah word with the same number is אהב — “to love” (Genesis 22:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 44. A Torah word with the same number is ילד — “to bear, give birth” (Genesis 3:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 320. A Torah word with the same number is נער — “young man, boy” (Genesis 14:24).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 2000.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 220. A Torah word with the same number is טהור — “pure, clean” (Genesis 7:2).
The letters that come out are כמכמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 120. A Torah word with the same number is מועד — “appointed time, festival” (Genesis 1:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 188. A Torah word with the same number is פקח — “to open” (Genesis 3:5).
The number 80 appears in the classical books 68 times across 24 works. The earliest mention is פירוש קדמון על ספר חסידים (~1200).
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 — 80. 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. לילי has 4 letters: ל Lamed, י Yod, ל Lamed, י Yod. The first letter is Lamed, the last is Yod.
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The name לילי 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 לילי these are ל and י. The Pentateuch has 26 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 20:3:
לא יהיה לך אלהים אחרים על פני
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
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.
