The name Shimron in Hebrew letters is שמרון. 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.
שמרון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שמרון. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in Genesis 46:13; 5 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “guardianship”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 596 — the same as the Torah word שמרון, “Shimron, son of Issachar”. That number points to Torah page 242 of 354 — in the portion Behaalotcha. What that portion is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 42:32. 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 שמרון gives 596.
596
The number 596 is the Torah word שמרון — «Shimron, son of Issachar» (Genesis 46:13).
And HaShem said unto Moses: 'Gather unto Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.
This is from the portion Behaalotcha. What it is about: Lighting the lampstand; the second Passover; the cloud leads the camp; quail and complaints; Miriam and tzaraat.
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) — 1246.
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) — 74. A Torah word with the same number is עד — “until, as far as” (Genesis 3:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 2251.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 134136.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2322.
The letters that come out are ביגפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 104. A Torah word with the same number is חוץ — “outside” (Genesis 6:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1068.
The number 596 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 596. 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. שמרון has 5 letters: ש Shin, מ Mem, ר Resh, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Shin, the last is final Nun.
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The name שמרון does not stand as a separate word in the Torah, but appears 1 time with prefixes — first in Genesis 46:13.
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 שמרון these are ש and נ. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 42:32:
שנים עשר אנחנו אחים בני אבינו האחד איננו והקטן היום את אבינו בארץ כנען
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 שמרון has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 596 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.
