The name Mattathah in Hebrew letters is מתתה. 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.
מתתה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מתתה. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in Ezra 10:33; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “gift of God”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 845 — the same as the Torah word תהמת, “the deeps”. That number points to Torah page 137 of 354 — in the portion Terumah. What that portion is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar. 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.
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Adding up the letters of the name מתתה gives 845.
845
The number 845 is the Torah word תהמת — «the deeps» (Exodus 15:5).
And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours.
This is from the portion Terumah. What it is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar.
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) — 845. A Torah word with the same number is תהמת — “the deeps” (Exodus 15:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 62. A Torah word with the same number is בין — “between” (Genesis 1:4).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3150.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 321625.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2165.
The letters that come out are יאאצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 102. A Torah word with the same number is בעל — “master, owner” (Genesis 14:13).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 898.
The number 845 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is רמב"ן על בראשית ח ד.
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 — 845. 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. מתתה has 4 letters: מ Mem, ת Tav, ת Tav, ה He. The first letter is Mem, the last is He.
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The name מתתה 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 מתתה 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.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
כל ימי נזרו קדש הוא לה׳
Numbers 6:8 · 20 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 845 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
The name מתתה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 845 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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.
