The name Yocheved in Hebrew letters is יוכבד. 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.
יוכבד
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is יוכבד. “The Lord is glory.” Mother of Moses, Aaron and Miriam (Exodus 6:20). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 42 — the same as the Torah word חדל, “to cease”. That number points to Torah page 42 of 354 — in the portion Toldot. What that portion is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 15:18. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Yocheved” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: יוכבד. 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 יוכבד gives 42.
42
The number 42 is the Torah word חדל — «to cease» (Genesis 11:8).
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
This is from the portion Toldot. What it is about: The birth of Esau and Jacob; the birthright sold for lentil stew; Isaac's wells; Jacob receives the blessing.
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) — 42. A Torah word with the same number is חדל — “to cease” (Genesis 11:8).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 15. A Torah word with the same number is זוב — “to flow” (Exodus 3:8).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 33. A Torah word with the same number is גל — “heap of stones” (Genesis 31:46).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 164. A Torah word with the same number is מעדן — “delicacy” (Genesis 49:20).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 556. A Torah word with the same number is מישור — “plain, tableland” (Deuteronomy 3:10).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 142. A Torah word with the same number is בלעם — “Balaam, son of Beor” (Numbers 22:5).
The letters that come out are מפלשק — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 550. A Torah word with the same number is נתק — “scall, scalp disease” (Leviticus 13:30).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 978.
The number 42 appears in the classical books 31 times across 22 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 — 42. 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. יוכבד has 5 letters: י Yod, ו Vav, כ Kaf, ב Bet, ד Dalet. The first letter is Yod, the last is Dalet.
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The name יוכבד appears in the Torah as a word 2 times. The first time is Exodus 6:20.
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 יוכבד these are י and ד. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Exodus 15:18:
ה׳ ימלך לעלם ועד
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.
The name יוכבד has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 42 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.
