The name Shaphat in Hebrew letters is שפט. 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.
שפט
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שפט. A Tanakh name: name of four Israelites (first in Numbers 13:5; 8 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “judge”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 389 — the same as the Torah word שפט, “to judge”. That number points to Torah page 35 of 354 — in the portion Chayei Sarah. What that portion is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Psalms 16:8. 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 שפט gives 389.
389
The number 389 is the Torah word שפט — «to judge» (Genesis 16:5).
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan.
This is from the portion Chayei Sarah. What it is about: Sarah's death and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah; the servant seeks a wife for Isaac; Rebecca at the well; Abraham's death.
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) — 389. A Torah word with the same number is שפט — “to judge” (Genesis 16:5).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “perhaps” (Genesis 16:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1545.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 96481.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1069.
The letters that come out are בונ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 58. A Torah word with the same number is נח — “Noah” (Genesis 5:29).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 860. A Torah word with the same number is נתתי — “I have given” (Genesis 1:29).
The number 389 appears in the classical books 3 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is מגלה עמוקות (~1637).
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 — 389. 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. שפט has 3 letters: ש Shin, פ Pe, ט Tet. The first letter is Shin, the last is Tet.
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The name שפט appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 18:25. Another 6 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ש and ends with ט. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 6 such verses. The first of them is Psalms 16:8:
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.
