The name Sidney in Hebrew letters is סידני. 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.
סידני
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is סידני. An English surname, from Old English words for “wide” and “island” or “riverside meadow”. A first name since the 18th century. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 134 — the same as the Torah word פדן, “Paddan-aram”. That number points to Torah page 134 of 354 — in the portion Terumah. What that portion is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Psalms 6:9. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Sidney” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: סידני. A name from the Tanakh — its Tanakh spelling is used. If your name is spelled differently, correct the Hebrew spelling and the report is recomputed.
Adding up the letters of the name סידני gives 134.
134
The number 134 is the Torah word פדן — «Paddan-aram» (Genesis 25:20).
And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.
This is from the portion Terumah. What it is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; 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) — 134. A Torah word with the same number is פדן — “Paddan-aram” (Genesis 25:20).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 17. A Torah word with the same number is טוב — “good” (Genesis 1:4).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 53. A Torah word with the same number is אבן — “stone” (Genesis 2:12).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 570. A Torah word with the same number is עשר — “ten” (Genesis 5:8).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 6316.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 462. A Torah word with the same number is בארלחיראי — “Beer-lahai-roi” (Genesis 16:14).
The letters that come out are חמקטמ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 197. A Torah word with the same number is בקצה — “at the edge” (Genesis 23:9).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 700. A Torah word with the same number is כפרת — “mercy seat, cover” (Exodus 25:17).
The number 134 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 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 — 134. 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. סידני has 5 letters: ס Samekh, י Yod, ד Dalet, נ Nun, י Yod. The first letter is Samekh, the last is Yod.
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The name סידני 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
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ס and ends with י. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 10 such verses. The first of them is Psalms 6:9:
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.
