The name Shinab in Hebrew letters is שנאב. 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.
שנאב
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שנאב. A Tanakh name: a Canaanite (first in Genesis 14:2; 1 mention in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 353 — the same as the Torah word נגש, “to come near”. That number points to Torah page 353 of 354 — in the portion Vezot HaBracha. What that portion is about: “This is the blessing”: Moses blesses the tribes; he sees the land from the mountain; Moses dies — “no prophet arose like Moses”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 2:11. 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 שנאב gives 353.
353
The number 353 is the Torah word נגש — «to come near» (Genesis 18:23).
And this for Judah, and he said: Hear, HaShem, the voice of Judah, and bring him in unto his people; his hands shall contend for him, and Thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.
This is from the portion Vezot HaBracha. What it is about: “This is the blessing”: Moses blesses the tribes; he sees the land from the mountain; Moses dies — “no prophet arose like Moses”.
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) — 353. A Torah word with the same number is נגש — “to come near” (Genesis 18:23).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 11. A Torah word with the same number is חג — “festival” (Exodus 10:9).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 38. A Torah word with the same number is גלה — “to uncover” (Genesis 9:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1294.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 92505.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1354.
The letters that come out are בטתש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 711. A Torah word with the same number is אשתי — “my wife” (Genesis 20:11).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 989.
The number 353 appears in the classical books 3 times across 3 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 — 353. 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. שנאב has 4 letters: ש Shin, נ Nun, א Alef, ב Bet. The first letter is Shin, the last is Bet.
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The name שנאב appears in the Torah as a word 1 time. The first time is Genesis 14:2.
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 שנאב these are ש and ב. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Genesis 2:11:
שם האחד פישון הוא הסבב את כל ארץ החוילה אשר שם הזהב
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
The name שנאב has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 353 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.
