First names

Nechama נחמה

Nechama is a first name, written נחמה in Hebrew (female given name). In the Torah codes, Nechama is found 25,194 times at skips 2–5,000, the shortest at skip 2 (Deuteronomy 22:1) — 2.4% above the 24,605 chance alone would give (probability of 25,194 or more by chance alone: 9.4 × 10⁻⁵).

Found in the Torah
25,194
Chance alone
24,605
P (≥ found)
9.4 × 10⁻⁵
Shortest skip
2

Skips 2–5,000, both directions, final letters folded, the written text — the laboratory's own defaults.

In the Torah

The Torah holds 25,194 sequences of נחמה at skips 2–5,000, 2.4% above what chance alone gives (about 24,605); at counts this large even that difference has a probability of 9.4 × 10⁻⁵ by chance alone.

Its smallest skip in the Torah is 2 — the first at Deuteronomy 22:1, reading forward.

Counting every skip from 2 to 101,616, the Torah holds 268,992 sequences of נחמה, against about 256,385 from chance alone.

  • Genesis 5,572
  • Exodus 5,245
  • Leviticus 4,040
  • Numbers 7,437
  • Deuteronomy 2,900

The shortest skips

  1. Deuteronomy 22:1דברים כב:אskip 2, forward

    לֹֽא־תִרְאֶה אֶת־שׁוֹר אָחִיךָ אוֹ אֶת־שֵׂיוֹ נִדָּחִים וְהִתְעַלַּמְתָּ מֵהֶם הָשֵׁב תְּשִׁיבֵם לְאָחִֽיךָ

    Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep driven away, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely bring them back unto thy brother.

    נחמה at skip 2, forward from Deuteronomy 22:1ואתשיודיותעלמתמהנחםה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 284,000Open in the laboratory →

  2. Genesis 37:6בראשית לז:וskip 3, forward

    וַיֹּאמֶר אֲלֵיהֶם שִׁמְעוּ־נָא הַחֲלוֹם הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר חָלָֽמְתִּי

    And he said unto them: ‘Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

    נחמה at skip 3, forward from Genesis 37:6ראליהםשמעואהלוהזאשרחלמתיוהנחםה
    skip 3, width 3 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 54,336Open in the laboratory →

  3. Genesis 40:16בראשית מ:טזskip 3, forward

    וַיַּרְא שַׂר־הָאֹפִים כִּי טוֹב פָּתָר וַיֹּאמֶר אֶל־יוֹסֵף אַף־אֲנִי בַּחֲלוֹמִי וְהִנֵּה שְׁלֹשָׁה סַלֵּי חֹרִי עַל־רֹאשִֽׁי

    When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph: ‘I also saw in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head;

    נחמה at skip 3, forward from Genesis 40:16ראליוסףאףאיבלויונהשלשהסליחנחמה
    skip 3, width 3 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 59,672Open in the laboratory →

  4. Deuteronomy 27:5דברים כז:הskip 3, backward

    וּבָנִיתָ שָּׁם מִזְבֵּחַ לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ מִזְבַּח אֲבָנִים לֹא־תָנִיף עֲלֵיהֶם בַּרְזֶֽל

    And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones; thou shalt lift up no iron tool upon them.

    נחמה at skip 3, backward from Deuteronomy 27:5זבחליקוקאליךזבאביםלאתניףעלנחמה
    skip 3, width 3 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads up one column.

    letter 290,644Open in the laboratory →

  5. Genesis 21:21בראשית כא:כאskip 4, forward

    וַיֵּשֶׁב בְּמִדְבַּר פָּארָן וַתִּֽקַּֽח־לוֹ אִמּוֹ אִשָּׁה מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם

    And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

    נחמה at skip 4, forward from Genesis 21:21תוישבבמדברפארותקלואואשמארץמצריםויהיבןחמה
    skip 4, width 4 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 26,346Open in the laboratory →

Across the Tanakh

88,702 sequences of נחמה at skips 2–5,000 in the whole Tanakh, close to the 88,836 that chance alone would produce.

  • Genesis 5,572
  • Exodus 5,245
  • Leviticus 4,040
  • Numbers 7,437
  • Deuteronomy 3,172
  • Joshua 3,757
  • Judges 2,721
  • Samuel 5,083
  • Kings 6,190
  • Isaiah 4,595
  • Jeremiah 5,378
  • Ezekiel 6,039
  • The Twelve 3,728
  • Psalms 5,620
  • Proverbs 1,903
  • Job 2,203
  • Song of Songs 458
  • Ruth 270
  • Lamentations 676
  • Ecclesiastes 890
  • Esther 732
  • Daniel 2,077
  • Ezra–Nehemiah 3,929
  • Chronicles 6,987

Outside the Torah

  1. Isaiah 25:8ישעיהו כה:חskip 2, forward

    בִּלַּע הַמָּוֶת לָנֶצַח וּמָחָה אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה דִּמְעָה מֵעַל כָּל־פָּנִים וְחֶרְפַּת עַמּוֹ יָסִיר מֵעַל כָּל־הָאָרֶץ כִּי יְהוָה דִּבֵּֽר

    He will swallow up death for ever; And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; And the reproach of His people will He take away from off all the earth; For the LORD hath spoken it.

    נחמה at skip 2, forward from Isaiah 25:8עהמותלצוחאדנייקונחמה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 598,738Open in the laboratory →

  2. Ezekiel 8:2יחזקאל ח:בskip 2, forward

    וָאֶרְאֶה וְהִנֵּה דְמוּת כְּמַרְאֵה־אֵשׁ מִמַּרְאֵה מָתְנָיו וּלְמַטָּה אֵשׁ וּמִמָּתְנָיו וּלְמַעְלָה כְּמַרְאֵה־זֹהַר כְּעֵין הַחַשְׁמַֽלָה

    Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of electrum.

    נחמה at skip 2, forward from Ezekiel 8:2זהרכעיהשלוישלחתבןחמה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 735,719Open in the laboratory →

  3. 2 Chronicles 2:17דברי הימים ב ב:יזskip 2, forward

    וַיַּעַשׂ מֵהֶם שִׁבְעִים אֶלֶף סַבָּל וּשְׁמֹנִים אֶלֶף חֹצֵב בָּהָר וּשְׁלֹשֶׁת אֲלָפִים וְשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹת מְנַצְּחִים לְהַעֲבִיד אֶת־הָעָֽם

    And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people at work.

    נחמה at skip 2, forward from 2 Chronicles 2:17שמאותמצילעבידאתהנחםה
    skip 2, width 2 — the matrix is as wide as the skip, so the sequence reads down one column.

    letter 1,144,557Open in the laboratory →

The spelling

נחמה — the name in Hebrew letters: female given name. Searched as נחמה, 4 letters, with a standard gematria value of 103.

As a plain word it stands 1 time in the Tanakh, first at Isaiah 54:11. Every word of the Tanakh in the Word Index →

Questions

Is Nechama in the Bible code?

The Torah holds 25,194 sequences of נחמה at skips 2–5,000, 2.4% above what chance alone gives (about 24,605); at counts this large even that difference has a probability of 9.4 × 10⁻⁵ by chance alone.

What is the shortest skip for Nechama in the Torah?

Skip 2, reading forward from Deuteronomy 22:1 — the shortest of 25,194 sequences at skips 2–5,000, where chance alone would give about 24,605.

How is Nechama spelled in Hebrew?

Nechama is spelled נחמה — 4 letters searched, with a standard gematria value of 103.

Is Nechama in the Bible code across the whole Tanakh?

88,702 sequences of נחמה at skips 2–5,000 in the whole Tanakh, close to the 88,836 that chance alone would produce.

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