The name Zak in Hebrew letters is זק. 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.
זק
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is זק. The name comes from Hebrew: from יעקב, Jacob; in the Tanakh, the patriarch of Israel (Genesis 25:26). Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 107 — the same as the Torah word גלעד, “Gilead, region east of Jordan”. That number points to Torah page 107 of 354 — in the portion Vaera. What that portion is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Leviticus 14:54. 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 זק gives 107.
107
The number 107 is the Torah word גלעד — «Gilead, region east of Jordan» (Genesis 31:21).
But as for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear HaShem G-d.'--
This is from the portion Vaera. What it is about: “And I appeared”: the promise of redemption in four expressions; the first seven plagues, from blood to hail.
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) — 107. A Torah word with the same number is גלעד — “Gilead, region east of Jordan” (Genesis 31:21).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 8. A Torah word with the same number is אהב — “to love” (Genesis 22:2).
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 26. A Torah word with the same number is והיה — “and it became” (Genesis 2:10).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 623. A Torah word with the same number is יגרתי — “I dreaded” (Deuteronomy 9:19).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 10049.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 114. A Torah word with the same number is עמד — “to stand” (Genesis 18:8).
The word that comes out is עד. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 74. A Torah word with the same number is עד — “until, as far as” (Genesis 3:19).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 253. A Torah word with the same number is אבירם — “Abiram, son of Eliab” (Numbers 16:1).
The number 107 appears in the classical books 10 times across 7 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 — 107. 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. זק has 2 letters: ז Zayin, ק Qof. The first letter is Zayin, the last is Qof.
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The name זק 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 זק these are ז and ק. The Pentateuch has exactly one such verse — Leviticus 14:54:
זאת התורה לכל נגע הצרעת ולנתק
This is from the portion Metzora. What it is about: Purification from tzaraat: two birds, cedar and hyssop; tzaraat of houses; discharges and purification.
The name זק has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 107 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.
