The name Onam in Hebrew letters is אונם. 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.
אונם
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is אונם. A Tanakh name: the name of an Edomite and an Israelite (first in Genesis 36:23; 4 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “strong”. 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 Genesis 2:4. 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 אונם 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) — 657. A Torah word with the same number is ותרומה — “and a contribution” (Exodus 29:28).
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) — 34. A Torah word with the same number is לבב — “heart” (Genesis 20:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 362. A Torah word with the same number is משכב — “bed” (Genesis 49:4).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 4137.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 162. A Torah word with the same number is בנימין — “Benjamin, son of Jacob” (Genesis 35:18).
The letters that come out are תפטי — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 499. A Torah word with the same number is לאבתינו — “to our fathers” (Deuteronomy 6:23).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 309. A Torah word with the same number is שדה — “field” (Genesis 2:5).
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. אונם has 4 letters: א Alef, ו Vav, נ Nun, ם final Mem. The first letter is Alef, the last is final Mem.
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The name אונם does not stand as a separate word in the Torah, but appears 1 time with prefixes — first in Genesis 36:23.
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 אונם these are א and מ. The Pentateuch has 83 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 2:4:
אלה תולדות השמים והארץ בהבראם ביום עשות ה׳ אלהים ארץ ושמים
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
The name אונם 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.
