'Patterns' in the Bible

"You are not to cut your hair in ritualistic patterns on your head or deface the edges of your beard.

"They are not to cut their hair in ritualistic patterns on their heads, deface the edges of their beards, or make incisions in their flesh.

King Ahaz traveled to Damascus and met with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria, where he observed the altar at Damascus. So King Ahaz sent a set of construction patterns of this altar to Uriah the priest.

"Furthermore, can anyone understand cloud patterns, or the thundering in his pavilion?