Nehemiah — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Nehemiah in Hebrew letters is נחמיה. 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.
נחמיה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is נחמיה. “The Lord has comforted.” The governor who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 113 — the same as the Torah word חקה, “{an enactment”. That number points to Torah page 113 of 354 — in the portion Bo. What that portion is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 22:8. 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 נחמיה gives 113.
113
The number 113 is the Torah word חקה — «{an enactment» (Genesis 26:5).
The number 113, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 113 in the book of Shmot (Exodus). These are its opening words:
יהוה אל משה ואהרן זאת חקת הפסח כל …
The verse this place falls on is Shmot (Exodus) 12:43:
וַיֹּאמֶר ה׳ אֶל־מֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן זֹאת חֻקַּת הַפָּסַח כָּל־בֶּן־נֵכָר לֹא־יֹאכַל בּוֹ
And HaShem said unto Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no alien eat thereof;
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
The same number, 113, is given by these biblical names:
נחמיה · פלג · סבאים
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) — 113. A Torah word with the same number is חקה — “{an enactment” (Genesis 26:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 50. A Torah word with the same number is כל — “the whole” (Genesis 1:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 446.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4289.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 427.
The word that comes out is טסימצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 209. A Torah word with the same number is אחר — “the hind part” (Genesis 5:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 630. A Torah word with the same number is שלש — “a descendant of the third degree, i.e. great…” (Genesis 50:23).
The number 113 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is שער הפסוקים (~1573).
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 נחמיה 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 נחמיה these are נ and ה. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Leviticus 22:8:
נבלה וטרפה לא יאכל לטמאה בה אני ה׳
This is from the portion Emor. What it is about: Laws of the priests; animals without blemish; the calendar of festivals — from the Sabbath to Sukkot; the lamp and the showbread.
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) — 113. A Torah word with the same number is חקה — “{an enactment” (Genesis 26:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 50. A Torah word with the same number is כל — “the whole” (Genesis 1:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 446.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4289.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 427.
The word that comes out is טסימצ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 209. A Torah word with the same number is אחר — “the hind part” (Genesis 5:4).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 630. A Torah word with the same number is שלש — “a descendant of the third degree, i.e. great…” (Genesis 50:23).
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 113
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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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