Samuel — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Samuel in Hebrew letters is שמואל. 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.
שמואל
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שמואל. “God has heard” or “name of God.” Prophet and judge who anointed Saul and David; his mother Hannah prayed for him at Shiloh (1 Samuel 1). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 377 — the same as the Torah word שמאול, “dark”. That number points to Torah page 23 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 34:23. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. There are no predictions or judgments here — only the text of the Torah and arithmetic you can check.
Adding up the letters of the name שמואל gives 377.
377
The number 377 is the Torah word שמאול — «dark» (Genesis 13:9).
The number 377, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 23 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis). These are its opening words:
ראיתי אחרי ראי על כן קרא לבאר באר …
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 16:13:
וַתִּקְרָא שֵׁם־ה׳ הַדֹּבֵר אֵלֶיהָ אַתָּה אֵל רֳאִי כִּי אָמְרָה הֲגַם הֲלֹם רָאִיתִי אַחֲרֵי רֹאִי
And she called the name of HaShem that spoke unto her, Thou art a G-d of seeing; for she said: 'Have I even here seen Him that seeth Me?'
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
The same number, 377, is given by these biblical names:
שמואל · שועא
Nine 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) — 377. A Torah word with the same number is שמאול — “dark” (Genesis 13:9).
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) — 53. A Torah word with the same number is אבן — “a stone” (Genesis 2:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1367.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92537.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1710.
The word that comes out is ביפתכ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 512. A Torah word with the same number is קדחת — “inflammation, i.e. febrile disease” (Leviticus 26:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 637.
The number 377 appears in the classical books 9 times across 7 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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The name שמואל appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Numbers 34:20.
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 שמואל these are ש and ל. The Pentateuch has 3 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 34:23:
שלש פעמים בשנה יראה כל זכורך את פני האדן ה׳ אלהי ישראל
This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.
Nine 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) — 377. A Torah word with the same number is שמאול — “dark” (Genesis 13:9).
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) — 53. A Torah word with the same number is אבן — “a stone” (Genesis 2:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1367.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92537.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1710.
The word that comes out is ביפתכ. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 512. A Torah word with the same number is קדחת — “inflammation, i.e. febrile disease” (Leviticus 26:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 637.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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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.
Биньямин Пичхадзе, «Хумаш 354» (חומש 354), Бней-Брак, 2002 / התשס״ג · A calculation, not a prediction.
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