The name Shimea in Hebrew letters is שמעא. 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.
שמעא
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שמעא. A Tanakh name: the name of four Israelites (first in 2 Samuel 21:21; 6 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 411 — the same as the Torah word שלמיאל, “Shelumiel, chief of Simeon”. That number points to Torah page 57 of 354 — in the portion Vayishlach. What that portion is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 41:26. 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 שמעא gives 411.
411
The number 411 is the Torah word שלמיאל — «Shelumiel, chief of Simeon» (Numbers 1:6).
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
This is from the portion Vayishlach. What it is about: Wrestling with the angel and the name Israel; the meeting with Esau; Dinah in Shechem; the birth of Benjamin and Rachel's death.
The same number, 411, is given by these Tanakh names:
Elisha אלישע
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) — 411. A Torah word with the same number is שלמיאל — “Shelumiel, chief of Simeon” (Numbers 1:6).
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) — 51. A Torah word with the same number is אכל — “to eat” (Genesis 2:16).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1566.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 96501.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1461.
The letters that come out are ביזת — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 419. A Torah word with the same number is אחתי — “my sister” (Genesis 12:13).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 681. A Torah word with the same number is תרועה — “trumpet blast, shout” (Leviticus 23:24).
The number 411 appears in the classical books 11 times across 8 works. The earliest mention is ספר קרניים (~1400).
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 — 411. 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. שמעא has 4 letters: ש Shin, מ Mem, ע Ayin, א Alef. The first letter is Shin, the last is Alef.
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The name שמעא does not stand as a word in the Pentateuch — as with most names, including many Tanakh names from the later books.
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 שמעא these are ש and א. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 41:26:
שבע פרת הטבת שבע שנים הנה ושבע השבלים הטבת שבע שנים הנה חלום אחד הוא
This is from the portion Miketz. What it is about: Pharaoh's dreams of seven cows and seven ears; Joseph rules Egypt; the brothers come for grain; the cup in Benjamin's sack.
The name שמעא has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 411 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.
