The name Shemida in Hebrew letters is שמידע. 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.
שמידע
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שמידע. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in Numbers 26:32; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “name of knowing”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 424 — the same as the Torah word קשיטה, “kesitah, piece of money”. That number points to Torah page 70 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Deuteronomy 28:31. 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 שמידע gives 424.
424
The number 424 is the Torah word קשיטה — «kesitah, piece of money» (Genesis 33:19).
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This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
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) — 424. A Torah word with the same number is קשיטה — “kesitah, piece of money” (Genesis 33:19).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 64. A Torah word with the same number is נטה — “to stretch out, pitch” (Genesis 12:8).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1630.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 96616.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1768.
The letters that come out are בימקז — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 159. A Torah word with the same number is קטן — “small” (Genesis 1:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1024.
The number 424 appears in the classical books 15 times across 10 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 424. 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. שמידע has 5 letters: ש Shin, מ Mem, י Yod, ד Dalet, ע Ayin. The first letter is Shin, the last is Ayin.
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The name שמידע does not stand as a separate word in the Torah, but appears 1 time with prefixes — first in Numbers 26:32.
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 שמידע these are ש and ע. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Deuteronomy 28:31:
שורך טבוח לעיניך ולא תאכל ממנו חמרך גזול מלפניך ולא ישוב לך צאנך נתנות לאיביך ואין לך מושיע
This is from the portion Ki Tavo. What it is about: “When you enter”: the first fruits and the declaration; the stones on Mount Ebal; blessings and admonitions.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
למטה דן עמיאל בן גמלי
Numbers 13:12 · 17 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 424 — 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.
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.
