• Hebrew cantillation, trope, trop, or te'amim is the manner of chanting ritual readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue services. The chants are written...
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  • Cantillation is the ritual chanting of prayers and responses. It often specifically refers to Jewish Hebrew cantillation. Cantillation sometimes refers...
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    accentuation and musical rendition of Biblical texts (see Hebrew cantillation). Audio example of liturgical Hebrew This is a portion of the blessing that is traditionally...
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    The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (/tɑːˈnɑːx/; Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ‎ Tanaḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/miːˈkrɑː/; Hebrew: מִקְרָא‎ Mīqrāʾ‍), is the canonical...
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  • טַעַם‎), and cantillation. This use continues into the present beyond reprintings of Biblical texts; for example, the sheet music for modern Hebrew songs, such...
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  • Revia (Hebrew: רְבִיעַ, [rəviaʕ]) is a cantillation mark commonly found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other biblical texts. It is commonly explained as being...
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  • niqqud, each of which has several functions (e.g. to denote Hebrew numerals); and cantillation, "accents" which are used exclusively to indicate how Biblical...
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  • denote Hebrew numerals consisting of a single Hebrew letter or of multiple Hebrew letters, respectively. Geresh is also the name of a cantillation mark...
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    Tiberian vocalization (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    which normally takes only one cantillation mark on the final word in the unit. Babylonian vocalization Hebrew cantillation Cardinal vowels Niqqud Palestinian...
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    also needed for complex scripts. For example, in most cases the Hebrew cantillation accent metheg is supposed to appear to the left of the vowel point...
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  • (/nəviˈiːm, nəˈviːɪm/; Hebrew: נְבִיאִים Nəvīʾīm, Tiberian: Năḇīʾīm 'Prophets', lit. 'spokespersons') is the second major division of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh)...
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  • the Hebrew language to denote acronyms. It is written before the last letter in the acronym. Gershayim is also the name of a note of cantillation in the...
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    Meteg (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    vowels or cantillation) under a consonant. It is identical in appearance to silluq and is unified with it in Unicode. Meteg differs from other Hebrew diacritics...
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  • Geresh (category CS1 Hebrew-language sources (he))
    initialisms or abbreviations, or to denote a single-digit Hebrew numeral A note of cantillation in the reading of the Torah and other Biblical books, taking...
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    the cantillation and modern vocalization are later additions reflecting a later stage of the language. These additions were added after 600 CE; Hebrew had...
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    Diacritic (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    absence of vowels. Cantillation marks indicate prosody. Other uses include the Early Cyrillic titlo stroke ( ◌҃ ) and the Hebrew gershayim ( ״ ), which...
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  • Moroccan cantillation (also referred to as Moroccan Te'amim, (Hebrew: טעמי המקרא מרוקאים or טעמי המקרא נוסח מרוקו‎) refers primarily to the style and...
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    Bible (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    acronym of the titles in Hebrew, איוב, משלי, תהלים yields Emet אמ"ת, which is also the Hebrew for "truth"). Hebrew cantillation is the manner of chanting...
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  • Psalms, equivalent to the quaver rest notation or the trope symbol in Hebrew cantillation. It also indicates a breath mark when reciting, along with the asterisk...
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  • vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters Hebrew cantillation, used for the ritual chanting of readings from the Bible in synagogue...
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  • Sof passuk (category Cantillation marks)
    is preceded by the סילוק silluq in the last word of the verse) is the cantillation mark that occurs on the last word of every verse, or passuk, in the Tanakh...
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  • Hebrew is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, and other Jewish diaspora languages. The following Unicode-related...
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  • Ketuvim (category Hebrew words and phrases in the Hebrew Bible)
    These three books are also the only ones in the Hebrew Bible with a special system of cantillation that is designed to emphasize parallel stichs within...
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    Weekly Torah portion (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
    chart will show the weekly readings. Judaism portal Chumash Haftarah Hebrew cantillation Lectionary Sefer Torah Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum Tanakh Tikkun...
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    Jewish texts include a series of marks assigning musical cantillation notes. Known in Hebrew as Ta'amim and Yiddish as Trope, there are records of these...
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  • translations interpret the phrase according to the Masoretic grammar of the Hebrew cantillation marks, which break the sentence into "u-sh'ar, yashuv b'nekha," "And...
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    Proverbs 31 (category Women in the Hebrew Bible)
    Ḥayil. The following table shows the Hebrew text of Proverbs 31 with not only vowels but also [Hebrew cantillation] Trope Symbols included, alongside an...
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    Zohar (category CS1 Hebrew-language sources (he))
    are utter forgeries," in part because they repeatedly discuss the Hebrew cantillation marks, which were not invented until the 9th century. In 1817 Luzzatto...
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  • or zarqa (Hebrew: זַרְקָא, with variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible. It...
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    Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה‎ (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four letters, written...
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