What are These Patterns?

• Conceptually related "ELS words" (like "hammer" and "anvil", or "chair" and "table") have a tendency to appear close to each other in the original Hebrew text of the Torah
• ELS words are composed of letters selected at various skip distances, e.g. every third letter; ELS = Equidistant Letter Sequences Example: HXXAXXMXXMXXEXXR
• Note: the Hebrew text is a string of letters - there are no spaces; and numbers are represented by letters in Hebrew

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The hidden "words" found in the text are formed by taking every n'th letter, such as every other letter or every 20th letter, in sequence. Randomly chosen "related words" tend to appear near each other. It is not surprising that individual words can be found like this in a text. What IS significant is that pairs of words with related meaning tend to occur close to each other. There is no expectation that this should happen.