Since I was a young boy...I always knew about Psalm 119 being fashioned after the Alephbet. After many years however, I have discovered that there are many more places in scripture where the known 22 letter alephbet were used, almost in a poetic structure....
You can only notice these if reading in Hebrew, not English, for the most part.
I plan to analyze a few suggestions in this thread over the next while.
I would like to analyze Lamentations, Proverbs and Psalms.
Today's entry will look solely at Lamentations and the wonderful patterns of the alephbet throughout.
LAMENTATIONS Chapter 1: 22 verses, one for each letter in the alephbetic order from Aleph to Tav.
Chapter 2: 22 verses, one for each letter. There is a ,perhaps, strange variation in the order of the Ayin and Pey being reversed. This same interchange appears also in Chapters 3 and 4.
Chapter 3: 66 verses, three consecutive verses for each letter from Aleph to Tav
Chapter 4: 22 verses, one for each letter from Aleph to Tav.Here is Lamentations 1 highlighted to see visually the pattern:
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Now look at chapters 2, same except with the Pey =Ayin reversed:
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