The name Marguerite in Hebrew letters is מרגוהריטה. 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.
מרגוהריטה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מרגוהריטה. Marguerite is a name of Greek origin, from “margarites”, which means “pearl”. It is the French form of Margaret; the French writer Marguerite Duras had this name. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 478 — the same as the Torah word חצרעינן, “Hazar-enan”. That number points to Torah page 124 of 354 — in the portion Yitro. What that portion is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 7:8. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Marguerite” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: מרגוהריטה. 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 מרגוהריטה gives 478.
478
The number 478 is the Torah word חצרעינן — «Hazar-enan» (Numbers 34:9).
and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.'
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”.
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) — 478. A Torah word with the same number is חצרעינן — “Hazar-enan” (Numbers 34:9).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 37. A Torah word with the same number is גדל — “to grow, be great” (Genesis 12:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 91. A Torah word with the same number is מלאך — “messenger, angel” (Genesis 16:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1892.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 81876.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2895.
The letters that come out are יגרפצגמנצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 566. A Torah word with the same number is ישרון — “Jeshurun, name of Israel” (Deuteronomy 32:15).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1646.
The number 478 appears in the classical books 5 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is ילקוט שמעוני (~1260).
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 — 478. 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. מרגוהריטה has 9 letters: מ Mem, ר Resh, ג Gimel, ו Vav, ה He, ר Resh, י Yod, ט Tet, ה He. The first letter is Mem, the last is He.
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The name מרגוהריטה 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 מרגוהריטה these are מ and ה. The Pentateuch has 16 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 7:8:
מן הבהמה הטהורה ומן הבהמה אשר איננה טהרה ומן העוף וכל אשר רמש על האדמה
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: מרגוהריטה = 478. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
