The name Tehiya in Hebrew letters is תחיה. 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.
תחיה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is תחיה. This name comes from Hebrew. Its source is the word or name tehiya, which means “revival”; today it is mostly found in Israel. This is its original Hebrew spelling. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 423 — the same as the Torah word פילגש, “concubine”. That number points to Torah page 69 of 354 — in the portion Vayeshev. What that portion is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Joshua 21:42. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Tehiya” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: תחיה. 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 תחיה gives 423.
423
The number 423 is the Torah word פילגש — «concubine» (Genesis 22:24).
And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke unto him, saying: 'After this manner did thy servant to me'; that his wrath was kindled.
This is from the portion Vayeshev. What it is about: Joseph's dreams and his sale by his brothers; Judah and Tamar; Joseph in Potiphar's house and in prison; the dreams of the butler and the baker.
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) — 423. A Torah word with the same number is פילגש — “concubine” (Genesis 22:24).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 18. A Torah word with the same number is חי — “living” (Genesis 1:20).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 45. A Torah word with the same number is מה — “what” (Genesis 2:19).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1601.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 160189.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1649.
The letters that come out are אסמצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 191. A Torah word with the same number is המקום — “the place” (Genesis 13:3).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 850. A Torah word with the same number is תכלת — “blue wool” (Exodus 25:4).
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 — 423. 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. תחיה has 4 letters: ת Tav, ח Chet, י Yod, ה He. The first letter is Tav, the last is He.
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The name תחיה appears in the Torah as a word 5 times. The first time is Genesis 27:40.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with ת and ends with ה. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 41 such verses. The first of them is Joshua 21:42:
תהיינה הערים האלה עיר עיר ומגרשיה סביבתיה כן לכל הערים האלה
«And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke unto him, saying: 'After this manner did thy servant to me'; that his wrath was kindled.»
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.
