The name Tatev in Hebrew letters is טטב. 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.
טטב
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is טטב. This name comes from Armenian. Its source is the word or name Tatev, the name of an old monastery in Armenia; today it is mostly found in Armenia. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 20 — the same as the Torah word היה, “to be, become”. That number points to Torah page 20 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Proverbs 17:1. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Tatev” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: טטב. 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 טטב gives 20.
20
The number 20 is the Torah word היה — «to be, become» (Genesis 1:2).
And they turned back, and came to En-mishpat--the same is Kadesh--and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
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.
with finals, reduced and ordinal — 20. A Torah word with the same number is היה — “to be, become” (Genesis 1:2).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 93. A Torah word with the same number is צבא — “host, army” (Genesis 2:1).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 166. A Torah word with the same number is עליון — “Most High” (Genesis 14:18).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 47. A Torah word with the same number is אולי — “perhaps” (Genesis 16:2).
The letters that come out are ננש — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 400. A Torah word with the same number is שנים — “two” (Genesis 1:16).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 1250.
The number 20 appears in the classical books 29 times across 20 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 — 20. 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. טטב has 3 letters: ט Tet, ט Tet, ב Bet. The first letter is Tet, the last is Bet.
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The name טטב 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 ט and ends with ב. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 4 such verses. The first of them is Proverbs 17:1:
«And they turned back, and came to En-mishpat--the same is Kadesh--and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.»
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.
