The name Tilon in Hebrew letters is תולון. 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.
תולון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is תולון. A Tanakh name: an Israelite (first in 1 Chronicles 4:20; 2 mentions in the Tanakh). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 492 — the same as the Torah word סבלת, “burdens”. That number points to Torah page 138 of 354 — in the portion Terumah. What that portion is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 15:5. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
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Adding up the letters of the name תולון gives 492.
492
The number 492 is the Torah word סבלת — «burdens» (Exodus 6:6).
And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours: their pillars four, and their sockets four.
This is from the portion Terumah. What it is about: The offering for the Sanctuary; the Ark, the table and the lampstand; the Tabernacle and its curtains; the altar.
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) — 1142.
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 24. A Torah word with the same number is חוי — “Hivite” (Genesis 10:17).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 60. A Torah word with the same number is ילך — “he will go” (Genesis 3:14).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1837.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 163472.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 2176.
The letters that come out are אפכפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 190. A Torah word with the same number is כנען — “Canaan, son of Ham” (Genesis 9:18).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 610. A Torah word with the same number is יתר — “to remain over” (Genesis 30:36).
The number 492 appears in the classical books 4 times across 3 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 — 492. 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. תולון has 5 letters: ת Tav, ו Vav, ל Lamed, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Tav, the last is final Nun.
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The name תולון 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 תולון these are ת and נ. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Exodus 15:5:
תהמת יכסימו ירדו במצולת כמו אבן
This is from the portion Beshalach. What it is about: The parting of the sea and the song of Moses and Miriam; manna and quail; water from the rock; the war with Amalek.
A verse whose whole sum equals your name
ולא תגנב
Deuteronomy 5:19 · 7 letters in the verse
All the letters of this verse add up to 492 — exactly your name's number. The Pentateuch has 5,853 verses, and only 200 of them fall below 1000. Of the 2,980 names in our index, 80 match this way — about one name in thirty-seven.
The name תולון has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 492 is not among them. Half of all names are like this — neither good nor bad, just a fact of counting.
Add a date of birth and the verse of meeting from that week's portion is added to the reading.
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.
