The name Pethuel in Hebrew letters is פתואל. 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.
פתואל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is פתואל. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in Joel 1:1; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “enlarged of God”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 517 — the same as the Torah word אשורי, “Asshurite”. That number points to Torah page 163 of 354 — in the portion Pekudei. What that portion is about: The accounting of the materials; the priestly garments are finished; the Tabernacle is raised on the first of Nisan; the cloud covers it. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Psalms 7:3. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Pethuel” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: פתואל. 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 פתואל gives 517.
517
The number 517 is the Torah word אשורי — «Asshurite» (Genesis 25:3).
And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets;
This is from the portion Pekudei. What it is about: The accounting of the materials; the priestly garments are finished; the Tabernacle is raised on the first of Nisan; the cloud covers it.
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) — 517. A Torah word with the same number is אשורי — “Asshurite” (Genesis 25:3).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “together” (Genesis 13:6).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noah” (Genesis 5:29).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2027.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 167337.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2050.
The letters that come out are ואפתכ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 507. A Torah word with the same number is שזר — “to twist” (Exodus 26:1).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 684. A Torah word with the same number is תרדף — “you shall pursue” (Deuteronomy 16:20).
The number 517 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 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 — 517. The channel posts one number a day, one verse and the Torah page it lands on. Nothing after it, no mailing list.
The name פתואל has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 517 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.
