The name Staffan in Hebrew letters is סטפן. 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.
סטפן
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is סטפן. A French form of Greek Stephanos, “crown”. It stands beside the older French form Étienne and was common in France in the 1970s. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 199 — the same as the Torah word צדקה, “righteousness”. That number points to Torah page 199 of 354 — in the portion Kedoshim. What that portion is about: “You shall be holy”: the corner of the field for the poor, honest scales, “love your neighbor as yourself”; honoring the elderly. 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 “Staffan” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: סטפן. 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 סטפן gives 199.
199
The number 199 is the Torah word צדקה — «righteousness» (Genesis 15:6).
And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is a vile thing; it shall not be accepted.
This is from the portion Kedoshim. What it is about: “You shall be holy”: the corner of the field for the poor, honest scales, “love your neighbor as yourself”; honoring the elderly.
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) — 849. A Torah word with the same number is אמתחת — “sack” (Genesis 42:27).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “strength” (Genesis 4:12).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to go, walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 900. A Torah word with the same number is שרת — “to minister, serve” (Genesis 39:4).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 12581.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 477. A Torah word with the same number is ותמלא — “and it was filled” (Genesis 6:11).
The letters that come out are חנוט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 73. A Torah word with the same number is גמל — “camel” (Genesis 12:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 726. A Torah word with the same number is קדשברנע — “Kadesh-barnea, desert oasis” (Numbers 32:8).
The number 199 appears in the classical books 2 times across 1 work. The earliest mention is ציצים ופרחים (יעב"ץ) (~1750).
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 — 199. 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. סטפן has 4 letters: ס Samekh, ט Tet, פ Pe, ן final Nun. The first letter is Samekh, the last is final Nun.
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The name סטפן 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
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.
