The name Perrine in Hebrew letters is פרין. 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.
פרין
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פרין. 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 France. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 340 — the same as the Torah word שם, “there”. That number points to Torah page 340 of 354 — in the portion Ki Tavo. What that portion is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Psalms 119:133. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Perrine” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: פרין. 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 פרין gives 340.
340
The number 340 is the Torah word שם — «there» (Genesis 2:8).
HaShem will establish thee for a holy people unto Himself, as He hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of HaShem thy G-d, and walk in His ways.
This is from the portion Ki Tavo. What it is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions.
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.
with finals and building — 990.
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) — 61. A Torah word with the same number is אני — “I” (Genesis 6:17).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1450.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 49000.
The letters that come out are וגמט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noah” (Genesis 5:29).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 717.
The number 340 appears in the classical books 25 times across 21 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 — 340. 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. פרין has 4 letters: פ Pe, ר Resh, י Yod, ן final Nun. The first letter is Pe, the last is final Nun.
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The name פרין 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with פ and ends with נ. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 4 such verses. The first of them is Psalms 119:133:
«HaShem will establish thee for a holy people unto Himself, as He hath sworn unto thee; if thou shalt keep the commandments of HaShem thy G-d, and walk in His ways.»
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.
