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Pekah in Hebrew — פקח, gematria 188

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The name Pekah in Hebrew letters is פקח. 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.

פקח
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פקח. A Tanakh name: a king of Israel (first in 2 Kings 15:25; 11 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “watch”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 188 — the same as the Torah word פקח, “to open”. That number points to Torah page 188 of 354 — in the portion Tazria. What that portion is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection. 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 פקח gives 188.
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The number 188 is the Torah word פקח — «to open» (Genesis 3:5).

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No other name in the index gives this number: it is one of 2,980.

The number 188, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 188 in the book of Vayikra (Leviticus).
The verse this place falls on is Vayikra (Leviticus) 13:56:
וְאִם רָאָה הַכֹּהֵן וְהִנֵּה כֵּהָה הַנֶּגַע אַחֲרֵי הֻכַּבֵּס אֹתוֹ וְקָרַע אֹתוֹ מִן־הַבֶּגֶד אוֹ מִן־הָעוֹר אוֹ מִן־הַשְּׁתִי אוֹ מִן־הָעֵרֶב
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing thereof, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.
This is from the portion Tazria. What it is about: The woman after childbirth; the laws of tzaraat on skin and garments — the signs and the priest's inspection.
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) — 188. A Torah word with the same number is פקח — “to open” (Genesis 3:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 44. A Torah word with the same number is ילד — “to bear, give birth” (Genesis 3:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1036. A Torah word with the same number is כריתות — “divorce” (Deuteronomy 24:1).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 16464.
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 ודס — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 70. A Torah word with the same number is כן — “so, thus” (Genesis 1:7).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 685. A Torah word with the same number is עטרות — “Ataroth, town in Gilead” (Numbers 32:3).
The number 188 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is מנורת המאור (אבוהב) (~1400).
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The number of the day, every morning
Every date has a number too. Once a year it will match the number of your name — 188. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
How to write Pekah in Hebrew

Hebrew is written from right to left. פקח has 3 letters: פ Pe, ק Qof, ח Chet. The first letter is Pe, the last is Chet.

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The name פקח appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Exodus 4:11.
The verse of your name
Neither the Pentateuch nor the whole Tanakh has a verse that begins with פ and ends with ח. That happens with some letter pairs and means nothing in itself.

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Your name's day

Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: פקח = 188. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.

2027-04-2518 Nisan 5787in 183 days
The verse of that day

וְאִם רָאָה הַכֹּהֵן וְהִנֵּה כֵּהָה הַנֶּגַע אַחֲרֵי הֻכַּבֵּס אֹתוֹ וְקָרַע אֹתוֹ מִן־הַבֶּגֶד אוֹ מִן־הָעוֹר אוֹ מִן־הַשְּׁתִי אוֹ מִן־הָעֵרֶב

«And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing thereof, then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof.»

Vayikra (Leviticus) 13:56 · 188 / 354

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Names with the same number, 188

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Other names on Torah page 188

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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.

Binyamin Pichkhadze, «Chumash 354» (חומש 354), Bnei Brak, 2002 · Addition, not prophecy.

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