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Finding / Verifying Equidistant Letter Sequences in Scripture


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Can Accordance be used to either verify purported ELS (equidistant letter sequences) in Scripture, or even beyond just verifying them, could Accordance even be used to find such patterns of occurring letters?

 

For example, I'm aware of the fact that the word torah is spelled out within the first five verses of Genesis, in which each of the consonants (t-v-r-h) is separated by 49 letters.  Is there some kind of construct, macro, or whatever else to verify or help locate such patterns?

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I don't think so. Accordance basically functions on a Word basis not a Letter or Character basis.

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I was curious, so I tried it. I got 3 hits using this search: ת\w{49}ו\w{49}ר\w{49}ה\w{49}

 

Gen 1:1 starting this the ת in בראשׁית.

Gen 16:8 starting with the ת in וַתֹּאמֶר

Gen 49:28 starting with the ת in וְזֹאת

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Thank you, both.  More just curious, but good thing to know.

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