The name Neville in Hebrew letters is נבילה. 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.
נבילה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is נבילה. Neville is a name of French origin, from “neuve ville”, which means “new town”. The British prime minister Neville Chamberlain had this name. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 97 — the same as the Torah word נזם, “nose ring”. That number points to Torah page 97 of 354 — in the portion Shemot. What that portion is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name נבילה gives 97.
97
The number 97 is the Torah word נזם — «nose ring» (Genesis 24:22).
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
This is from the portion Shemot. What it is about: Slavery in Egypt; Moses in the basket on the Nile; the burning bush and the Name; the first audience with Pharaoh.
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) — 97. A Torah word with the same number is נזם — “nose ring” (Genesis 24:22).
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) — 373. A Torah word with the same number is שגע — “to be driven mad” (Deuteronomy 28:34).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 3529.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 353. A Torah word with the same number is נגש — “to come near” (Genesis 18:23).
The letters that come out are טשמכצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 459. A Torah word with the same number is התמיד — “the continual” (Numbers 4:7).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 618. A Torah word with the same number is בריתו — “his covenant” (Exodus 2:24).
The number 97 appears in the classical books 11 times across 7 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 — 97. 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. נבילה has 5 letters: נ Nun, ב Bet, י Yod, ל Lamed, ה He. The first letter is Nun, the last is He.
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The name נבילה 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 נבילה 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.
The name נבילה has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 97 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.
