The name Megan in Hebrew letters is מגאן. 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.
מגאן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מגאן. A Welsh pet form of Marged, the Welsh Margaret, from Greek margarites, “pearl”. It spread beyond Wales in the 20th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. 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.
You wrote “Megan” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: מגאן. 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 מגאן gives 94.
94
The number 94 is the Torah word צד — «side» (Genesis 6:16).
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) — 347. A Torah word with the same number is מזרק — “sprinkling bowl” (Exodus 27:3).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4110.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 221. A Torah word with the same number is ארך — “length” (Genesis 6:15).
The letters that come out are ירתט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 619. A Torah word with the same number is אחרית — “end, latter days” (Genesis 49:1).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 380. A Torah word with the same number is מצרים — “Mizraim, Egypt” (Genesis 10:6).
The number 94 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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.
Hebrew is written from right to left. מגאן has 4 letters: מ Mem, ג Gimel, א Alef, ן final Nun. The first letter is Mem, the last is final Nun.
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The name מגאן 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 מגאן 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.
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.
