The name Methuselah in Hebrew letters is מתושלח. 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.
מתושלח
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מתושלח. A Tanakh name: an antediluvian patriarch (first in Genesis 5:21; 6 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “man of a dart”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 784 — the same as the Torah word מתושלח, “Methuselah, son of Enoch”. That number points to Torah page 76 of 354 — in the portion Miketz. What that portion is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 10:11. 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 מתושלח gives 784.
784
The number 784 is the Torah word מתושלח — «Methuselah, son of Enoch» (Genesis 5:21).
We are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
This is from the portion Miketz. What it is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack.
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) — 784. A Torah word with the same number is מתושלח — “Methuselah, son of Enoch” (Genesis 5:21).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “strength” (Genesis 4:12).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 82. A Torah word with the same number is לבן — “Laban, brother of Rebekah” (Genesis 24:29).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2897.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 252600.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 3232.
The letters that come out are יאפבכס — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 173. A Torah word with the same number is ספיחיה — “its aftergrowth” (Leviticus 25:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1350.
The number 784 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is 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 — 784. 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. מתושלח has 6 letters: מ Mem, ת Tav, ו Vav, ש Shin, ל Lamed, ח Chet. The first letter is Mem, the last is Chet.
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The name מתושלח appears in the Torah as a word 5 times. The first time is Genesis 5:21.
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 מתושלח these are מ and ח. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Genesis 10:11:
מן הארץ ההוא יצא אשור ויבן את נינוה ואת רחבת עיר ואת כלח
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
ולמטה בני דן נשיא בקי בן יגלי
Numbers 34:22 · 23 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 784 — 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 מתושלח has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 784 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.
