The name Shimrath in Hebrew letters is שמרת. 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.
שמרת
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שמרת. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 8:21; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “guardship”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 940 — the same as the Torah word צמיתת, “permanence, perpetuity”. That number points to Torah page 232 of 354 — in the portion Naso. What that portion is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar. 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. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name שמרת gives 940.
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The number 940 is the Torah word צמיתת — «permanence, perpetuity» (Leviticus 25:23).
And he that presented his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;
This is from the portion Naso. What it is about: The sotah — the test of the wife; the nazirite; the priestly blessing; the gifts of the tribal chiefs for the dedication of the altar.
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) — 940. A Torah word with the same number is צמיתת — “permanence, perpetuity” (Leviticus 25:23).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 76. A Torah word with the same number is עבד — “servant” (Genesis 9:25).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 3530.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 291600.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2120.
The letters that come out are ביגא — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 16. A Torah word with the same number is אחז — “to seize” (Genesis 22:13).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1356.
The number 940 appears in the classical books 2 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 — 940. 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. שמרת has 4 letters: ש Shin, מ Mem, ר Resh, ת Tav. The first letter is Shin, the last is Tav.
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The name שמרת does not stand as a separate word in the Torah, but appears 10 times with prefixes — first in Exodus 13:10.
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 שמרת 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.
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.
