The 72 Names: Shem ha-Meforash

Discovery Science

About this app

Three verses of Exodus, at the crossing of the sea, each contain seventy-two letters. Woven together, the middle verse reversed, they give seventy-two divine names of three letters: the name of seventy-two, sometimes called Shem ha-Meforash.

Scrub or play through the derivation and watch each name emerge from the verses, letter by letter, with the letters lit in the Hebrew text. Browse the full table, right to left. Open any name to see exactly where its letters come from. Hold names in view in a quiet procession: a single name, your saved names, or all seventy-two.

CHECKED, NOT COPIED
The app derives the names from the verses in code and tests the result against the customary list.

SOURCES KEPT APART
A · Primary source (Exodus; Talmud and Rashi)
B · Later Kabbalah (the Bahir, Abulafia)
C · Christian Cabala and occultism, including the familiar angel names
D · Modern exercise
S · Modern scholarship
The angel names and attributes are later additions and are labelled as such.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account. No ads. No tracking. Works offline. Journal and sessions stay on your device, with export and delete.

ACCESSIBLE
Large text, screen readers, reduced motion, high contrast, mute and haptics off. Right-to-left Hebrew. Tablets and foldables.

Part of the Discovery Science Kabbalah Collection.

What’s new

First release. Animated derivation of the 72 Names from Exodus 14:19-21, full table, name entries with sources, procession contemplation, on-device journal and sessions.