The name Zipporah in Hebrew letters is צפרה. 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.
צפרה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is צפרה. A Tanakh name: wife of Moses (first in Exodus 2:21; 3 mentions in the Tanakh). Meaning, per Strong’s dictionary (1890): “bird”. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 375 — the same as the Torah word עשה, “to do, make”. That number points to Torah page 21 of 354 — in the portion Lech Lecha. What that portion is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Genesis 6:16. 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 צפרה gives 375.
375
The number 375 is the Torah word עשה — «to do, make» (Genesis 1:7).
that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine, lest thou shouldest say: I have made Abram rich;
This is from the portion Lech Lecha. What it is about: “Go forth”: Abraham leaves Haran; the promise of land and offspring; the covenant between the pieces; circumcision.
The same number, 375, is given by these Tanakh names:
Solomon שלמה
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) — 375. A Torah word with the same number is עשה — “to do, make” (Genesis 1:7).
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) — 1710.
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 54525.
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 1005. A Torah word with the same number is שרשרה — “chain” (Exodus 28:14).
The letters that come out are הוגצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 104. A Torah word with the same number is חוץ — “outside” (Genesis 6:14).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 701. A Torah word with the same number is שאת — “lifting up, acceptance” (Genesis 4:7).
The number 375 appears in the classical books 33 times across 18 works. The earliest mention is ספר יראים (~1190).
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 — 375. 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. צפרה has 4 letters: צ Tsadi, פ Pe, ר Resh, ה He. The first letter is Tsadi, the last is He.
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The name צפרה appears in the Torah as a word 3 times. The first time is Exodus 2:21.
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 צפרה these are צ and ה. The Pentateuch has 2 such verses. The first of them is Genesis 6:16:
צהר תעשה לתבה ואל אמה תכלנה מלמעלה ופתח התבה בצדה תשים תחתים שנים ושלשים תעשה
This is from the portion Noach. What it is about: The flood and the ark; the rainbow as a sign of the covenant; the tower of Babel; ten generations from Noah to Abraham.
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.
