The name Nahash in Hebrew letters is נחש. 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.
נחש
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is נחש. A Tanakh name: two persons, apparently non-Israelite (first in 1 Samuel 11:1; 9 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 358 — the same as the Torah word חשן, “breastpiece”. That number points to Torah page 4 of 354 — in the portion Bereshit. What that portion is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Isaiah 33:8. 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 נחש gives 358.
358
The number 358 is the Torah word חשן — «breastpiece» (Exodus 25:7).
And out of the ground HaShem G-d formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatsoever the man would call every living creature, that was to be the name thereof.
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
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) — 358. A Torah word with the same number is חשן — “breastpiece” (Exodus 25:7).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 43. A Torah word with the same number is גם — “also” (Genesis 3:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1326.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92564.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 466. A Torah word with the same number is שמעון — “Simeon, son of Jacob” (Genesis 29:33).
The letters that come out are טסב — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 71. A Torah word with the same number is מלא — “to fill” (Genesis 1:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 884. A Torah word with the same number is חצצוןתמר — “Hazazon-tamar, Amorite town” (Genesis 14:7).
The number 358 appears in the classical books 35 times across 17 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 — 358. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
The name נחש has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 358 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.
