The Tree of Life
The verse where the Tree of Life is first named — highest grid_words count in the series (13). INSIDE baseline 0: עֵץ tree, רַע evil, גַּן garden. The entire Eden cast encoded: Adam, Eve, Eden, serpent, fruit, good, knowledge, death, life. The same Hebrew word עֵץ for the Tree of Life, the Tree of Knowledge, the cross, and the restored Tree of Life in Revelation 22. Eden lost. Eden bought back. Eden restored.
Verse — surface text
Genesis 2:9 (KJV): "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."
The four trees, one wood
The Hebrew עֵץ is the same word for:
- The Tree of Life in Eden (this verse)
- The Tree of Knowledge in Eden (same verse)
- The cross — Galatians 3:13: "cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree"; Acts 5:30: "whom ye slew and hanged on a tree"
- The Tree of Life restored — Revelation 22:2: "in the midst of the street of it... was there the tree of life"
The same Hebrew word for all four — the wood that lost paradise, the wood that bought it back, the wood that closes the canon.
The finding — 13 grid words (highest density in the series)
grid_p = 0 · grid_words = 13 (tree, life, Elohim, evil, Adam, death, YHWH, garden, Eden, earth, good, see, Eve) — best of 10 shuffles = 5 → percentile rank 1.0.
INSIDE baseline 0 — Torah-unique:
- עֵץ tree skip −3
- רַע evil skip −6
- גַּן garden skip −31
The Eden cast (all encoded as ELS)
| Hebrew | Meaning | Skip | Baseline |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֱלֹהִים | Elohim | +87 | 259 — rare |
| אֲדָמָה | earth | +61 | 899 — rare |
| עֵדֶן | Eden | −71 | 2,486 |
| טוֹב | good | +155 | 1,911 |
| פְּרִי | fruit | −127 | — |
| יָדַע | know | −81 | — |
| רָאָה | see | +60 | — |
| חוֹה | Eve | −52 | — |
| אָדָם | Adam | +53 | — |
| נָחָשׁ | serpent | +63 | — |
| מָוֶת | death | −79 | — |
| חַיִּים | life-plural | −227 | — |
| יהוה | YHWH | −66 | — |
| יֵשׁוּעַ | Yeshua | +83 | — |
| מָשִׁיחַ | Mashiach | +74 | — |
Reproducibility
berea call els_verse_signal ref="Genesis 2:9" \
words="ישוע:Yeshua,משיח:Mashiach,יהוה:YHWH,עצ:tree,חיימ:life,
גנ:garden,עדנ:Eden,אדמה:earth,פרי:fruit,טוב:good,רע:evil,
ידע:know,ראה:see,אלהימ:Elohim,אדמ:Adam,חוה:Eve,מות:death,
נחש:serpent"