The name Vernon in Hebrew letters is ורנון. 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.
ורנון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is ורנון. Vernon is an English name for boys that comes from Gaulish: the word “vern” means “alder tree”. Today this name is found mostly in the United States and the United Kingdom. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 312 — the same as the Torah word ישב, “to sit, dwell”. That number points to Torah page 312 of 354 — in the portion Eikev. What that portion is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 1:7. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Vernon” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: ורנון. 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 ורנון gives 312.
312
The number 312 is the Torah word ישב — «to sit, dwell» (Genesis 4:16).
Wherefore Levi hath no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; HaShem is his inheritance, according as HaShem thy G-d spoke unto him.--
This is from the portion Eikev. What it is about: “Because you will heed”: the land of seven fruits; the blessing after meals; manna as a test; the second paragraph of the Shema.
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) — 962.
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) — 1227.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 45072.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1042.
The letters that come out are פגטפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 181. A Torah word with the same number is אליסף — “Eliasaph, chief of Gad” (Numbers 1:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 746. A Torah word with the same number is שמות — “names” (Genesis 2:20).
The number 312 appears in the classical books 18 times across 14 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 — 312. 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. ורנון has 5 letters: ו Vav, ר Resh, נ Nun, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Vav, the last is final Nun.
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The name ורנון 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 ורנון these are ו and נ. The Pentateuch has 214 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 1:7:
ויעש אלהים את הרקיע ויבדל בין המים אשר מתחת לרקיע ובין המים אשר מעל לרקיע ויהי כן
This is from the portion Bereshit. What it is about: Creation in six days and the Sabbath; Adam and Eve in the garden; Cain and Abel; ten generations to Noah.
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.
