The name Lino in Hebrew letters is לינו. 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.
לינו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is לינו. The name Lino comes from Greek: its root, the word linon, probably means “flax”. It is a boy's name that is found mostly in Italy and in Spain. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 96 — the same as the Torah word מלאכה, “work”. That number points to Torah page 96 of 354 — in the portion Shemot. What that portion is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 23:18. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Lino” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: לינו. 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 לינו gives 96.
96
The number 96 is the Torah word מלאכה — «work» (Genesis 2:2).
but every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.'
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
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) — 96. A Torah word with the same number is מלאכה — “work” (Genesis 2:2).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 42. A Torah word with the same number is חדל — “to cease” (Genesis 11:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 376. A Torah word with the same number is עשו — “Esau, son of Isaac” (Genesis 25:25).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3536.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 256. A Torah word with the same number is קיצון — “outermost” (Exodus 26:4).
The letters that come out are כמטפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 149. A Torah word with the same number is קדמה — “east of” (Genesis 2:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 212. A Torah word with the same number is ריב — “quarrel, dispute” (Genesis 26:20).
The number 96 appears in the classical books 34 times across 18 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 96. 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. לינו has 4 letters: ל Lamed, י Yod, נ Nun, ו Vav. The first letter is Lamed, the last is Vav.
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The name לינו appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 19:2. Another 1 time 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 לינו these are ל and ו. The Pentateuch has 28 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 23:18:
לאברהם למקנה לעיני בני חת בכל באי שער עירו
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.
«but every woman shall ask of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.'»
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.
