The name Ziva in Hebrew letters is זיוה. 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.
זיוה
In short
Your name in Hebrew letters is זיוה. This name comes from Hebrew. Its source is the word or name ziv, which means “radiance”; today it is mostly found in Israel. This is its original Hebrew spelling. Adding up the numbers of its letters gives 28 — the same as the Torah word כח, “strength”. That number points to Torah page 28 of 354 — in the portion Vayera. What that portion is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah. The verse that begins with the first letter of your name and ends with the last is Exodus 30:13. 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 זיוה gives 28.
28
The number 28 is the Torah word כח — «strength» (Genesis 4:12).
This number is shared with 1 other name(s) out of the 2,980 in the index.
The number 28, as the remainder modulo 354, points to Torah page 28 in the book of Bereshit (Genesis).
The verse this place falls on is Bereshit (Genesis) 19:18:
וַיֹּאמֶר לוֹט אֲלֵהֶם אַל־נָא אֲדֹנָי
And Lot said unto them: 'Oh, not so, my lord;
This is from the portion Vayera. What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
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.
with finals and ordinal — 28. A Torah word with the same number is כח — “strength” (Genesis 4:12).
Reduced, each letter to one digit (mispar katan) — 19. A Torah word with the same number is גוי — “nation” (Genesis 10:5).
Cumulative: a letter plus all letters before it (mispar kidmi) — 119. A Torah word with the same number is מעט — “a little, few” (Genesis 18:4).
Squares of the letter values (mispar perati) — 210. A Torah word with the same number is דור — “generation” (Genesis 6:9).
Building: the sum grows with each letter (mispar bone’eh) — 75. A Torah word with the same number is כהן — “priest” (Genesis 14:18).
The letters that come out are עמפצ — not a word that stands in the Pentateuch. Atbash: letters mirrored, alef for tav, bet for shin, and the number of the resulting word — 280. A Torah word with the same number is עיר — “city” (Genesis 4:17).
Filling: the names of the letters are counted — alef, bet, gimel… (milui) — 105. A Torah word with the same number is עלה — “to go up” (Genesis 2:6).
The number 28 appears in the classical books 4 times across 4 works. The earliest mention is פרי עץ חיים שער השופר (~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 — 28. 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. זיוה has 4 letters: ז Zayin, י Yod, ו Vav, ה He. The first letter is Zayin, the last is He.
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The name זיוה 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 זיוה these are ז and ה. The Pentateuch has 8 such verses. The first of them is Exodus 30:13:
זה יתנו כל העבר על הפקדים מחצית השקל בשקל הקדש עשרים גרה השקל מחצית השקל תרומה לה׳
This is from the portion Ki Tisa. What it is about: The half-shekel for the census; the golden calf and the broken tablets; the thirteen attributes of mercy; the second tablets.
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.
