The name Simeon in Hebrew letters is שמעון. 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.
שמעון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is שמעון. From “to hear”: “the Lord has heard” (Genesis 29:33). Jacob and Leah’s second son. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 466 — the same as the Torah word שמעון, “Simeon, son of Jacob”. That number points to Torah page 112 of 354 — in the portion Bo. What that portion is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin. 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 שמעון gives 466.
466
The number 466 is the Torah word שמעון — «Simeon, son of Jacob» (Genesis 29:33).
that ye shall say: It is the sacrifice of HaShem'S passover, for that He passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.' And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
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) — 1116. A Torah word with the same number is שרירות — “stubbornness” (Deuteronomy 29:18).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 25. A Torah word with the same number is כה — “thus, so” (Genesis 15:5).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 70. A Torah word with the same number is כן — “so, thus” (Genesis 1:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1781.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 99036.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1932.
The letters that come out are ביזפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 108. A Torah word with the same number is חק — “statute, allotted portion” (Genesis 47:22).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 688. A Torah word with the same number is ממחרת — “on the next day” (Genesis 19:34).
The number 466 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is בעל הטורים על התורה (~1300).
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 — 466. 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. שמעון has 5 letters: ש Shin, מ Mem, ע Ayin, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Shin, the last is final Nun.
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The name שמעון appears in the Torah as a word 20 times. The first time is Γένεση 29:33. Another 4 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
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 שמעון 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.
«that ye shall say: It is the sacrifice of HaShem'S passover, for that He passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.' And the people bowed the head and worshipped.»
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.
