The name Reu in Hebrew letters is רעו. 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.
רעו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is רעו. A Tanakh name: a postdiluvian patriarch (first in Genesis 11:18; 5 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “friend”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 276 — the same as the Torah word עור, “skin”. That number points to Torah page 276 of 354 — in the portion Pinchas. What that portion is about: The covenant of peace with Phinehas; the second census; the daughters of Zelophehad and inheritance; Joshua the successor; the festival offerings. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 23:19. 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 רעו gives 276.
276
The number 276 is the Torah word עור — «skin» (Genesis 3:21).
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This is from the portion Pinchas. What it is about: The covenant of peace with Phinehas; the second census; the daughters of Zelophehad and inheritance; Joshua the successor; the festival offerings.
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) — 276. A Torah word with the same number is עור — “skin” (Genesis 3:21).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 42. A Torah word with the same number is חדל — “to cease” (Genesis 11:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1141.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 44936.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 746. A Torah word with the same number is שמות — “names” (Genesis 2:20).
The letters that come out are גזפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 90. A Torah word with the same number is מן — “from” (Genesis 2:6).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 652. A Torah word with the same number is מרבית — “increase, profit” (Leviticus 25:37).
The number 276 appears in the classical books 5 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is מגלה צפונות (~1700).
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 — 276. 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. רעו has 3 letters: ר Resh, ע Ayin, ו Vav. The first letter is Resh, the last is Vav.
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The name רעו appears in the Torah as a word 5 times. The first time is Genesis 11:18.
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 רעו these are ר and ו. The Pentateuch has 6 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 23:19:
ראשית בכורי אדמתך תביא בית ה׳ אלהיך לא תבשל גדי בחלב אמו
This is from the portion Mishpatim. What it is about: Laws of the servant, damages, theft and pledges; “an eye for an eye” as compensation; the sabbatical year; “we will do and we will hear”.
The name רעו has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 276 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.
