The name Ted in Hebrew letters is טד. 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.
טד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is טד. This name comes from Greek. Its source is the word or name Theodoros, which means “gift of God”; today it is mostly found in English-speaking countries. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 13 — the same as the Torah word אחד, “one”. That number points to Torah page 13 of 354 — in the portion Noach. What that portion is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Numbers 32:26. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Ted” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: טד. 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 טד gives 13.
13
The number 13 is the Torah word אחד — «one» (Genesis 1:5).
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
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 — 13. A Torah word with the same number is אחד — “one” (Genesis 1:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 55. A Torah word with the same number is הלך — “to go, walk” (Genesis 2:14).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 97. A Torah word with the same number is נזם — “nose ring” (Genesis 24:22).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 22. A Torah word with the same number is יחד — “together” (Genesis 13:6).
The letters that come out are נק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 150. A Torah word with the same number is יסף — “to add” (Genesis 4:2).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 853. A Torah word with the same number is המחתת — “the fire pans” (Exodus 38:3).
The number 13 appears in the classical books 154 times across 56 works. The earliest mention is ספר הפליאה (~1390).
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 — 13. 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. טד has 2 letters: ט Tet, ד Dalet. The first letter is Tet, the last is Dalet.
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The name טד 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
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 טד these are ט and ד. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Numbers 32:26:
טפנו נשינו מקננו וכל בהמתנו יהיו שם בערי הגלעד
This is from the portion Matot. What it is about: Vows and their annulment; the war with Midian; the tribes of Reuben and Gad ask for land beyond the Jordan.
«And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and upon all wherewith the ground teemeth, and upon all the fishes of the sea: into your hand are they delivered.»
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.
