The name Melchizedek in Hebrew letters is מלכי. 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.
מלכי
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מלכי. A Tanakh name: an early king in the Land of Israel (first in Genesis 14:18; 4 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “king of right”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 100 — the same as the Torah word על, “on, over”. That number points to Torah page 100 of 354 — in the portion Vaera. What that portion is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 22:28. 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 מלכי gives 100.
100
The number 100 is the Torah word על — «on, over» (Genesis 1:2).
And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am HaShem.'
This is from the portion Vaera. What it is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail.
The same number, 100, is given by these Tanakh names:
Michal מיכל
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) — 100. A Torah word with the same number is על — “on, over” (Genesis 1:2).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 10. A Torah word with the same number is בדד — “alone” (Numbers 23:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 46. A Torah word with the same number is מאה — “hundred” (Genesis 5:3).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 380. A Torah word with the same number is מצרים — “Mizraim, Egypt” (Genesis 10:6).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3000.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 300. A Torah word with the same number is כפר — “to cover; atone” (Genesis 6:14).
The letters that come out are יכלמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 100. A Torah word with the same number is על — “on, over” (Genesis 1:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 274. A Torah word with the same number is עדר — “flock, herd” (Genesis 29:2).
The number 100 appears in the classical books 83 times across 54 works. The earliest mention is פירוש קדמון על ספר חסידים (~1200).
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 — 100. 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. מלכי has 4 letters: מ Mem, ל Lamed, כ Kaf, י Yod. The first letter is Mem, the last is Yod.
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The name מלכי appears in the Torah as a word 6 times. The first time is Gênesis 14:18. 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 מלכי these are מ and י. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 22:28:
מלאתך ודמעך לא תאחר בכור בניך תתן לי
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
The name מלכי has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 100 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.
