The name Quintin in Hebrew letters is קינטין. 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.
קינטין
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is קינטין. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 229 — the same as the Torah word הדרך, “the road”. That number points to Torah page 229 of 354 — in the portion Naso. What that portion is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Joshua 15:60. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Quintin” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: קינטין. 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 קינטין gives 229.
229
The number 229 is the Torah word הדרך — «the road» (Genesis 38:16).
but if thou hast gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband--
This is from the portion Naso. What it is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar.
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) — 879.
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) — 76. A Torah word with the same number is עבד — “servant” (Genesis 9:25).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1140.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 15281.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 947.
The letters that come out are דמטנמט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 152. A Torah word with the same number is נקב — “to designate, pierce” (Genesis 30:28).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 857. A Torah word with the same number is ואתנת — “and female donkeys” (Genesis 12:16).
The number 229 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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 — 229. 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. קינטין has 6 letters: ק Qof, י Yod, נ Nun, ט Tet, י Yod, ן final Nun. The first letter is Qof, the last is final Nun.
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The name קינטין 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 ק and ends with נ. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 9 such verses. The first of them is Joshua 15:60:
קרית בעל היא קרית יערים והרבה ערים שתים וחצריהן
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
ובני פלוא אליאב
Numbers 26:8 · 13 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 229 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: קינטין = 229. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
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.
