The name Methushael in Hebrew letters is מתושאל. 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.
מתושאל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is מתושאל. A Tanakh name: an antediluvian patriarch (first in Genesis 4:18; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “man who is of God”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 777 — the same as the Torah word מתושאל, “Methushael, descendant of Cain”. That number points to Torah page 69 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 6:3. 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 מתושאל gives 777.
777
The number 777 is the Torah word מתושאל — «Methushael, descendant of Cain» (Genesis 4:18).
And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke unto him, saying: 'After this manner did thy servant to me'; that his wrath was kindled.
This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
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) — 777. A Torah word with the same number is מתושאל — “Methushael, descendant of Cain” (Genesis 4:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 75. A Torah word with the same number is כהן — “priest” (Genesis 14:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2862.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 252537.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 3196.
The letters that come out are יאפבתכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 513. A Torah word with the same number is געתם — “Gatam, son of Eliphaz” (Genesis 36:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1043.
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 — 777. 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. מתושאל has 6 letters: מ Mem, ת Tav, ו Vav, ש Shin, א Alef, ל Lamed. The first letter is Mem, the last is Lamed.
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The name מתושאל appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 4:18. 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 מתושאל these are מ and ל. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Numbers 6:3:
מיין ושכר יזיר חמץ יין וחמץ שכר לא ישתה וכל משרת ענבים לא ישתה וענבים לחים ויבשים לא יאכל
This is from the portion Naso. What it is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar.
The name מתושאל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 777 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.
