Seth — the number of the name, the Torah page and the verse
The name Seth in Hebrew letters is שת. 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.
שת
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שת. “Placed, granted” (Genesis 4:25). Adam’s third son. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 700 — the same as the Torah word כפרת, “a lid”. That number points to Torah page 346 of 354 — in the portion Nitzavim. What that portion is about: “You are standing”: the covenant with all, and with those not here; “the word is very near to you”; choose life. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 15:14. 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 שת gives 700.
700
The number 700 is the Torah word כפרת — «a lid» (Exodus 25:17).
The number 700, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 346 in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy). These are its opening words:
הזאת והיה כי יבאו עליך כל הדברים האלה …
The verse this place falls on is Devarim (Deuteronomy) 29:28:
הַנִּסְתָּרֹת לַה׳ אֱלֹהֵינוּ וְהַנִּגְלֹת לָׄנׄוּׄ וּׄלְׄבָׄנֵׄיׄנׄוּׄ עַד־עוֹלָם לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת־כָּל־דִּבְרֵי הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת ס
The secret things belong unto HaShem our G-d; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
This is from the portion Nitzavim. What it is about: “You are standing”: the covenant with all, and with those not here; “the word is very near to you”; choose life.
The same number, 700, is given by these biblical names:
שת · פכרת · ששק · רקת
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) — 700. A Torah word with the same number is כפרת — “a lid” (Exodus 25:17).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “desire” (Genesis 24:49).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 43. A Torah word with the same number is גם — “assemblage” (Genesis 3:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2590.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 250000.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1000.
The word that comes out is בא. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 3. A Torah word with the same number is אב — “father, in a literal and immediate, or…” (Genesis 2:24).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 766.
The number 700 appears in the classical books 11 times across 5 works. The earliest mention is ספר חסידים (~1200).
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The name שת appears in the Torah as a word 9 times. The first time is Genesis 4:25. Another 1 time it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 שת these are ש and ת. The Pentateuch has 17 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 15:14:
שמעו עמים ירגזון חיל אחז ישבי פלשת
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.
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) — 700. A Torah word with the same number is כפרת — “a lid” (Exodus 25:17).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 7. A Torah word with the same number is או — “desire” (Genesis 24:49).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 43. A Torah word with the same number is גם — “assemblage” (Genesis 3:6).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2590.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 250000.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1000.
The word that comes out is בא. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 3. A Torah word with the same number is אב — “father, in a literal and immediate, or…” (Genesis 2:24).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 766.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
Compute with a date of birth The whole Torah page 346
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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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