The name Nachshon in Hebrew letters is נחשון. 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.
נחשון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is נחשון. A Tanakh name: the name of an Israelite (first in Exodus 6:23; 10 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 414 — the same as the Torah word תבואה, “produce, yield”. That number points to Torah page 60 of 354 — in the portion Vayishlach. What that portion is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 13:9. 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 נחשון gives 414.
414
The number 414 is the Torah word תבואה — «produce, yield» (Genesis 47:24).
And G-d said unto Jacob: 'Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and make there an altar unto G-d, who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from the face of Esau thy brother.'
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
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) — 1064.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 27. A Torah word with the same number is בכה — “to weep” (Genesis 21:16).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 63. A Torah word with the same number is חנה — “to encamp” (Genesis 26:17).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1542.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 95100.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1244.
The letters that come out are טסבפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 160. A Torah word with the same number is כסף — “silver, money” (Genesis 13:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1002.
The number 414 appears in the classical books 9 times across 8 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 414. 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. נחשון has 5 letters: נ Nun, ח Chet, ש Shin, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Nun, the last is final Nun.
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The name נחשון appears in the Torah as a word 6 times. The first time is Exodus 6:23.
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 נחשון these are נ and נ. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Leviticus 13:9:
נגע צרעת כי תהיה באדם והובא אל הכהן
This is from the portion Tazria. What it is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection.
«And G-d said unto Jacob: 'Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and make there an altar unto G-d, who appeared unto thee when thou didst flee from the face of Esau thy brother.'»
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.
