Ofir — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Ofir in Hebrew letters is אופיר. 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.
אופיר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אופיר. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 297 — the same as the Torah word פרזי, “a Perizzite, one of the Canaanitish tribes”. That number points to Torah page 297 of 354 — in the portion Devarim. What that portion is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 23:15. 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 אופיר gives 297.
297
The number 297 is the Torah word פרזי — «a Perizzite, one of the Canaanitish tribes» (Genesis 13:7).
The number 297, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 297 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy). These are its opening words:
מלך חשבון החרם כל עיר מתם הנשים והטף …
The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 3:6:
וַנַּחֲרֵם אוֹתָם כַּאֲשֶׁר עָשִׂינוּ לְסִיחֹן מֶלֶךְ חֶשְׁבּוֹן הַחֲרֵם כָּל־עִיר מְתִם הַנָּשִׁים וְהַטָּף
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones.
This is from the portion Devarim. What it is about: Moses begins his address in the plains of Moab: judges, spies, forty years of wandering, the victories over Sihon and Og.
The same number, 297, is given by these biblical names:
אופיר · בצרה · זמרן · יעזיר
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) — 297. A Torah word with the same number is פרזי — “a Perizzite, one of the Canaanitish tribes” (Genesis 13:7).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “alive” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 54. A Torah word with the same number is מטה — “a branch” (Genesis 38:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1277.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 46537.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 489.
The word that comes out is תפומג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 529.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 734.
The number 297 appears in the classical books 10 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is עץ חיים (~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 אופיר 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 אופיר these are א and ר. The Pentateuch has 15 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 23:15:
אדני שמעני ארץ ארבע מאת שקל כסף ביני ובינך מה הוא ואת מתך קבר
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
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) — 297. A Torah word with the same number is פרזי — “a Perizzite, one of the Canaanitish tribes” (Genesis 13:7).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “alive” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 54. A Torah word with the same number is מטה — “a branch” (Genesis 38:18).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1277.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 46537.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 489.
The word that comes out is תפומג. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 529.
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 734.
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 297
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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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