Nahum — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Nahum in Hebrew letters is נחום. 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.
נחום
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is נחום. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 104 — the same as the Torah word חוץ, “separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors”. That number points to Torah page 104 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 15:10. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name נחום gives 104.
104
The number 104 is the Torah word חוץ — «separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors» (Genesis 6:14).
The number 104, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 104 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
להוציא את הכנים ולא יכלו ותהי הכנם באדם …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 8:14:
וַיַּעֲשׂוּ־כֵן הַחַרְטֻמִּים בְּלָטֵיהֶם לְהוֹצִיא אֶת־הַכִּנִּים וְלֹא יָכֹלוּ וַתְּהִי הַכִּנָּם בָּאָדָם וּבַבְּהֵמָה
And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon beast.
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, 104, is given by these biblical names:
מדין · סדם · מנוח · חמון
Nine 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) — 664.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 41. A Torah word with the same number is אם — “very widely as demonstrative, lo!” (Genesis 4:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 397. A Torah word with the same number is יהושוע — “Jehoshua” (Exodus 17:9).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4200.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 276. A Torah word with the same number is עור — “skin” (Genesis 3:21).
The word that comes out is טספי. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 159. A Torah word with the same number is קטן — “abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally” (Genesis 1:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 616. A Torah word with the same number is יתרו — “Jethro, Moses' father-in-law” (Exodus 3:1).
The number 104 appears in the classical books 5 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is מנורת המאור (אלנקאווה) (~1400).
The full message
Every letter of the name explained, the words and namesakes with references, the Hebrew date, the letter and tribe of the month, the day 861 of your life, the psalm by age, the attestations from 834 works — a PDF built the moment you pay.
The name נחום does not stand as a word in the Pentateuch — as with most names, including many Tanakh names from the later books.
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 נחום these are נ and מ. The Pentateuch has 8 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 15:10:
נשפת ברוחך כסמו ים צללו כעופרת במים אדירים
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.
Nine 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) — 664.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 41. A Torah word with the same number is אם — “very widely as demonstrative, lo!” (Genesis 4:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 397. A Torah word with the same number is יהושוע — “Jehoshua” (Exodus 17:9).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4200.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 276. A Torah word with the same number is עור — “skin” (Genesis 3:21).
The word that comes out is טספי. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 159. A Torah word with the same number is קטן — “abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally” (Genesis 1:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 616. A Torah word with the same number is יתרו — “Jethro, Moses' father-in-law” (Exodus 3:1).
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
Compute with a date of birth The whole Torah page 104
Other names
Mikhail · Miriam · Mor · Mordecai · Moses · Nadezhda · Naomi · Naphtali · Natalia · Nathan · Nathanael · Nechama · All names
How it is counted
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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.
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