The name Nikos in Hebrew letters is ניקוס. 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.
ניקוס
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ניקוס. Nikos is a name of Greek origin, from “nike + laos”, which means “victory + people”. It is a short Greek form of Nikolaos; the writer Nikos Kazantzakis had this name. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 226 — the same as the Torah word צפון, “north”. That number points to Torah page 226 of 354 — in the portion Bamidbar. What that portion is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Judges 1:33. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Nikos” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ניקוס. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name ניקוס gives 226.
226
The number 226 is the Torah word צפון — «north» (Genesis 13:14).
but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;
This is from the portion Bamidbar. What it is about: The census in the desert: 603,550 men; the order of the camps around the Tabernacle; the Levites and their service.
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) — 226. A Torah word with the same number is צפון — “north” (Genesis 13:14).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 64. A Torah word with the same number is נטה — “to stretch out, pitch” (Genesis 12:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1121. A Torah word with the same number is עטרותשופן — “Atroth-shophan, town in Gad” (Numbers 32:35).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 16236.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 662. A Torah word with the same number is מרכבת — “chariots of” (Exodus 15:4).
The letters that come out are טמדפח — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 141. A Torah word with the same number is צאן — “flock, sheep” (Genesis 4:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 444. A Torah word with the same number is מקדש — “sanctuary” (Exodus 15:17).
The number 226 appears in the classical books 10 times across 6 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 226. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
«but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;»
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.
