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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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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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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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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Combining grapheme joiner (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
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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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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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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Nevi'im (redirect from The Hebrew Prophets, nabiy')
(/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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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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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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Ole (Hebrew: עוֹלֶה) a cantillation mark found in Psalms, Proverbs, and Job (the אמ״ת books). Ole is also sometimes used as a stress marker in texts without...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Amram's cantillation (mms://media.jvod.info/Nosach/Aharon_Amram/PARACHA/1_10_7_miketz.mp3 [which begins with verse 24]). Shelomo Morag, The Hebrew of the...
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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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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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Torah reading (category Articles containing Hebrew-language text)
lectures he gives in Baltimore Aliyah (Torah) Weekly Torah portion Hebrew cantillation Haftarah Minyan Sefer Torah Torah ark Yom Tov Torah readings Torah...
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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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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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Zarka (trope) (redirect from Zarqa (cantillation))
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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