cohesion

The term “cohesion” describes the features of a text that promote or create its sense of being a linguistic unity. Crystal in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language called it “the ties that bind a text together”.

Studies of English language have identified particularly these as features that promote cohesion:

Conjunctive relations: where an explicit relation is made between two sections of discourse: terms like “however, because…” serve to mark such relations
Anaphoresis: is where part of a text "points back" to some earlier part. So for example, pronouns imply an already mentioned noun and demonstratives imply previously mentioned or understood entities: so “her” refers to a previously mentioned woman, and "there" implies an already mentioned place
Cataphoresis: is the reverse, a textual pointing forward to what is to come. “Listen to this…” provides a common example of a demonstrative serving this function
Substitution: because it implies a connection between the words or phrases involved promotes cohesion. Thus the phrase “the one enthroned in heaven” in Ps 2:4 links to other mentions of YHWH (not least in the parallel stich)
Repetition
- Forms: that is elements of the shape of the text are repeated
- Lexical and semantic relationships: when words or meanings are repeated.

Studies of cohesive features of Hebrew are not as advanced, but in general similar features seem to be at work.