Acrostic

A poetic device in which the first letters of each line or stanza spell out the alphabet, a word, or a motto. The Hebrew authors often used an alphabetical acrostic as a poetic or mnemonic (memory) device (see Psalm 9; 10; 25; 34; 37; 111; 112; 119; 145; Proverbs 31:10–31; Lamentations 1–4; Nahum 1).