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Medan in Hebrew — מדן, gematria 94

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The name Medan in Hebrew letters is מדן. 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.

מדן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מדן. A Tanakh name: a son of Abraham (first in Genesis 25:2; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 94 — the same as the Torah word צד, “side”. That number points to Torah page 94 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 Numbers 1:3. 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 מדן gives 94.
94
The number 94 is the Torah word צד — «side» (Genesis 6:16).

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This number is shared with 4 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.

The number 94, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 94 in the book of Shmot (Exodus).
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 2:21:
וַיּוֹאֶל מֹשֶׁה לָשֶׁבֶת אֶת־הָאִישׁ וַיִּתֵּן אֶת־צִפֹּרָה בִתּוֹ לְמֹשֶׁה
And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
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) — 744. A Torah word with the same number is שותלח — “Shuthelah, son of Ephraim” (Numbers 26:35).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 31. A Torah word with the same number is אל — “to, toward” (Genesis 1:9).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 350. A Torah word with the same number is עפר — “dust” (Genesis 2:7).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4116.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 178. A Torah word with the same number is חפץ — “to delight in, desire” (Genesis 34:19).
The letters that come out are יקט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 119. A Torah word with the same number is מעט — “a little, few” (Genesis 18:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 620. A Torah word with the same number is עשרים — “twenty” (Genesis 6:3).
The number 94 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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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 — 94. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
How to write Medan in Hebrew

Hebrew is written from right to left. מדן has 3 letters: מ Mem, ד Dalet, ן final Nun. The first letter is Mem, the last is final Nun.

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The name מדן appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 25:2.
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 מדן these are מ and נ. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Numbers 1:3:
מבן עשרים שנה ומעלה כל יצא צבא בישראל תפקדו אתם לצבאתם אתה ואהרן
This is from the portion Bamidbar. What it is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service.

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Your name's day

Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: מדן = 94. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-09-2927 Elul 5787in 340 days
The verse of that day

וַיּוֹאֶל מֹשֶׁה לָשֶׁבֶת אֶת־הָאִישׁ וַיִּתֵּן אֶת־צִפֹּרָה בִתּוֹ לְמֹשֶׁה

«And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.»

Shmot (Exodus) 2:21 · 94 / 354

Half of all names have such a day.

Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.

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Names with the same number, 94

Alvian · Angela · Angelo · Anibal · Daisy · Dilan · Donald · Khalvdan · Khoup · Megan · Melatiah · Mikhaela · Natela · Paddi

Other names on Torah page 94

Mahath 448 · Tamaz 448 · Temah 448

Other names

Mayline · Mayra · Mazal · Mebunnai · Mechislav · Medad · Medard · Medardo · Medea · Medison · Mefodiy · Meg · All names

How it is counted

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.

Binyamin Pichkhadze, «Chumash 354» (חומש 354), Bnei Brak, 2002 · Addition, not prophecy.

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