The name Yiftach in Hebrew letters is יפתח. 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.
יפתח
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יפתח. A Tanakh name: an Israelite; also a place (first in Joshua 15:43; 30 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “he will open”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 498 — the same as the Torah word מנחת, “Manahath, son of Shobal”. That number points to Torah page 144 of 354 — in the portion Tetzaveh. What that portion is about: “Command”: oil for the lamp; the priestly garments — the ephod, the breastplate with twelve stones; the consecration of the priests. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Isaiah 26:3. 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 יפתח gives 498.
498
The number 498 is the Torah word מנחת — «Manahath, son of Shobal» (Genesis 36:23).
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
This is from the portion Tetzaveh. What it is about: “Command”: oil for the lamp; the priestly garments — the ephod, the breastplate with twelve stones; the consecration of the priests.
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) — 498. A Torah word with the same number is מנחת — “Manahath, son of Shobal” (Genesis 36:23).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 21. A Torah word with the same number is אך — “only, surely” (Genesis 7:23).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 57. A Torah word with the same number is מזבח — “altar” (Genesis 8:20).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 1991.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 166564.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1088.
The letters that come out are מואס — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 107. A Torah word with the same number is גלעד — “Gilead, region east of Jordan” (Genesis 31:21).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 925.
The number 498 appears in the classical books 1 time across 1 work. The earliest mention is אם הבנים שמחה.
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 — 498. 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. יפתח has 4 letters: י Yod, פ Pe, ת Tav, ח Chet. The first letter is Yod, the last is Chet.
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The name יפתח appears in the Torah as a word 2 times. The first time is Genesis 8:6. Another 7 times it stands with prefixes — “and”, “in”, “the”.
The verse of your name
The Pentateuch has no verse that begins with י and ends with ח. The custom allows the whole Tanakh — the Prophets and the Writings have 9 such verses. The first of them is Isaiah 26:3:
The name יפתח has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 498 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.
