The name Spiridion in Hebrew letters is ספירידיאון. 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.
ספירידיאון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ספירידיאון. Spiridion is a Greek name for boys that comes from Greek: the word “spyridion” means “small basket”. Today this name is found mostly in Greece. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 431 — the same as the Torah word עציוןגבר, “Ezion-geber”. That number points to Torah page 77 of 354 — in the portion Miketz. What that portion 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 verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Joshua 12:2. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Spiridion” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ספירידיאון. 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 ספירידיאון gives 431.
431
The number 431 is the Torah word עציוןגבר — «Ezion-geber» (Numbers 33:35).
And Judah said unto Israel his father: 'Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
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.
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) — 1081.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 35. A Torah word with the same number is גבל — “to set bounds” (Exodus 19:12).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 107. A Torah word with the same number is גלעד — “Gilead, region east of Jordan” (Genesis 31:21).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1847.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 52853.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2985.
The letters that come out are חומגמקמתפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 726. A Torah word with the same number is קדשברנע — “Kadesh-barnea, desert oasis” (Numbers 32:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1434.
The number 431 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is רבינו בחיי על שמות.
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 — 431. 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. ספירידיאון has 10 letters: ס Samekh, פ Pe, י Yod, ר Resh, י Yod, ד Dalet, י Yod, א Alef, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Samekh, the last is final Nun.
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The name ספירידיאון 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 נ. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 2 such verses. The first of them is Joshua 12:2:
סיחון מלך האמרי היושב בחשבון משל מערוער אשר על שפת נחל ארנון ותוך הנחל וחצי הגלעד ועד יבק הנחל גבול בני עמון
Any name written in Hebrew letters is a number: ספירידיאון = 431. And every date has a number of its own. There is a day in the year when the two coincide.
«And Judah said unto Israel his father: 'Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.»
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.
