The name Zenon in Hebrew letters is זנון. 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.
זנון
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is זנון. This name comes from Greek. Its source is the word or name Zeus, which means “belonging to Zeus”; it was borne by the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea. In Hebrew it is written by sound. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 113 — the same as the Torah word חקה, “statute”. That number points to Torah page 113 of 354 — in the portion Bo. What that portion is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 49:13. Each of these steps is laid out below with its sources. Every figure can be checked by hand.
You wrote “Zenon” — this exact spelling is what was calculated: זנון. 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 זנון gives 113.
113
The number 113 is the Torah word חקה — «statute» (Genesis 26:5).
And HaShem said unto Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no alien eat thereof;
This is from the portion Bo. What it is about: Locusts, darkness and the death of the firstborn; the Passover lamb; the exodus from Egypt; the commandment of tefillin.
The same number, 113, is given by these Tanakh names:
Nehemiah נחמיה
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) — 763. A Torah word with the same number is הנחשת — “the bronze” (Exodus 35:16).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 23.
Ordinal: alef 1, bet 2 … tav 22 (mispar siduri) — 41. A Torah word with the same number is אם — “if” (Genesis 4:7).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 439. A Torah word with the same number is בתואל — “Bethuel, father of Rebekah” (Genesis 22:22).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 5085.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 240. A Torah word with the same number is ככר — “plain, talent, loaf” (Genesis 13:10).
The letters that come out are עטפט — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 168. A Torah word with the same number is חפף — “to cover, shelter” (Deuteronomy 33:12).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 291. A Torah word with the same number is ארץ — “earth, land” (Genesis 1:1).
The number 113 appears in the classical books 2 times across 2 works. The earliest mention is שער הפסוקים (~1573).
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 — 113. 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. זנון has 4 letters: ז Zayin, נ Nun, ו Vav, ן final Nun. The first letter is Zayin, the last is final Nun.
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The name זנון 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 זנון these are ז and נ. The Pentateuch has 4 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 49:13:
זבולן לחוף ימים ישכן והוא לחוף אניות וירכתו על צידן
This is from the portion Vayechi. What it is about: Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh and all his sons; Jacob's death and burial in Hebron; Joseph's death.
The name זנון has no such day. The numbers of the dates in a year cover 326 values out of 940, and 113 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.
