The name Peder in Hebrew letters is פדר. 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.
פדר
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פדר. The name comes from Greek “petros”, which means “stone” or “rock”. It became common in Europe because of the apostle Peter. This form of the name is used in Denmark and Norway. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 284 — the same as the Torah word רדף, “to pursue”. That number points to Torah page 284 of 354 — in the portion Matot. What that portion is about: Vows and their annulment; the war with Midian; the tribes of Reuben and Gad ask for land beyond the Jordan. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 9:28. 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 פדר gives 284.
284
The number 284 is the Torah word רדף — «to pursue» (Genesis 14:14).
We will pass over armed before HaShem into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.'
This is from the portion Matot. What it is about: Vows and their annulment; the war with Midian; the tribes of Reuben and Gad ask for land beyond the Jordan.
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) — 284. A Torah word with the same number is רדף — “to pursue” (Genesis 14:14).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 14. A Torah word with the same number is יד — “hand” (Genesis 3:22).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 41. A Torah word with the same number is אם — “if” (Genesis 4:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1210. A Torah word with the same number is תרשיש — “beryl gemstone” (Exodus 28:20).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 46416.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 448. A Torah word with the same number is במות — “Bamoth, place in Moab” (Numbers 21:19).
The letters that come out are וקג — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 109. A Torah word with the same number is צידה — “provisions, game” (Genesis 27:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1025.
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 — 284. 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. פדר has 3 letters: פ Pe, ד Dalet, ר Resh. The first letter is Pe, the last is Resh.
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The name פדר does not stand as a separate word in the Torah, but appears 2 times with prefixes — first in Leviticus 1:8.
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 פדר these are פ and ר. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 9:28:
פן יאמרו הארץ אשר הוצאתנו משם מבלי יכלת ה׳ להביאם אל הארץ אשר דבר להם ומשנאתו אותם הוציאם להמתם במדבר
This is from the portion Eikev. What it is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema.
The name פדר has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 284 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.
