The name Stav in Hebrew letters is סתיו. 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.
סתיו
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is סתיו. Hebrew סתיו, “autumn”. The word appears once in the Tanakh, in the Song of Songs, where it meant the rainy season; today the name is given to girls and boys. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 476 — the same as the Torah word תמול, “yesterday, before”. That number points to Torah page 122 of 354 — in the portion Yitro. What that portion is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Jeremiah 5:8. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Stav” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: סתיו. 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 סתיו gives 476.
476
The number 476 is the Torah word תמול — «yesterday, before» (Genesis 31:2).
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,
This is from the portion Yitro. What it is about: Jethro's counsel on judges; standing at Sinai; the Ten Utterances; “you shall not make yourself an idol”.
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) — 476. A Torah word with the same number is תמול — “yesterday, before” (Genesis 31:2).
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) — 1826.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 163736.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1466.
The letters that come out are חאמפ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 129. A Torah word with the same number is נטע — “to plant” (Genesis 2:8).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 558. A Torah word with the same number is ומצותיו — “and his commandments” (Deuteronomy 6:2).
The number 476 appears in the classical books 8 times across 6 works. The earliest mention is מדרש לפירושים (~1450?).
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 — 476. 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. סתיו has 4 letters: ס Samekh, ת Tav, י Yod, ו Vav. The first letter is Samekh, the last is Vav.
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The name סתיו 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 ו. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 6 such verses. The first of them is Jeremiah 5:8:
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.
