Meteg (or meseg or metheg, Hebrew: מֶתֶג, lit. 'bridle', also gaʿya גַּעְיָה, lit. 'bellowing', מַאֲרִיךְ maʾarikh, or מַעֲמִיד maʿamid) is a punctuation...
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Hebrew alphabet (section Meteg)
adding a vertical line (called Meteg) underneath the letter and to the left of the vowel point, the vowel is made long. The meteg is only used in Biblical Hebrew...
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placement of the meteg to the left of the segol is correct, which has a shva sign written as two vertical dots to denote short vowel. If a meteg were placed...
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Hebrew diacritics (section Meteg)
vav with middle dot) in Israeli writing for the sake of disambiguation. Meteg is a vertical bar placed below a character next to the niqqud for various...
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Tiberian Hebrew, that is true only when the long vowel is marked with a meteg.) There are further differences: Sephardim now pronounce shewa na as /e/...
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orthographically similar marks maqaf ־ - hyphen geresh ֜ ֝ ׳ ' apostrophe gershayim ֞ ״ " quotation mark meteg ֽ , comma inverted nun ׆ [ bracket...
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standard Hebrew keyboard at AltGr-6. In some books, other marks, such as meteg, are used. Accent (poetry) Accent (music) Foot (prosody) Initial-stress-derived...
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qamaṣ), whenever there is written beside one of these long vowel sounds a meteg (or what is also called a ga’ayah) and is denoted by a small vertical line...
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missing / full Mater lectionis Abbreviations Plene scriptum Punctuation Diacritics Meteg Cantillation Geresh Gershayim Inverted nun Shekel sign Numerals...
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then been noted in the critical apparatus). Diacritics like the Silluq and Meteg which were missing in the Leningrad Codex also have not been added. Like...
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transliterated as short. But if a vowel carries an accent ֫ or a meteg ֽ , then it is always long—a meteg in particular is often used in places where a vowel is...
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orthographically similar marks maqaf ־ - hyphen geresh ֜ ֝ ׳ ' apostrophe gershayim ֞ ״ " quotation mark meteg ֽ , comma inverted nun ׆ [ bracket...
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cantillation mark gaʻya (גַּעְיָה lit. 'bleating' or 'bellowing'),: 22–23 or meteg, e.g. the shva under the letter bet in the word בְּהוֹנוֹת "toes" would...
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marked with gangya (a straight line next to the vowel symbol, equivalent to meteg), and as [i] when followed by the letter yodh: thus va-nashubah and bi-yom...
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stressed syllable and the related conjunctive two syllables before in place of meteg.) The disjunctives are traditionally divided into four levels, with lower...
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orthographically similar marks maqaf ־ - hyphen geresh ֜ ֝ ׳ ' apostrophe gershayim ֞ ״ " quotation mark meteg ֽ , comma inverted nun ׆ [ bracket...
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Altona, 1756. Shimmush, comprising three smaller works: Shoṭ la-Sus and Meteg laHamor, on the growing influence of the Sabbateans, and Sheveṭ leGev Kesilim...
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orthographically similar marks maqaf ־ - hyphen geresh ֜ ֝ ׳ ' apostrophe gershayim ֞ ״ " quotation mark meteg ֽ , comma inverted nun ׆ [ bracket...
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More on Meteg and CGJ [1] L2/03-235 Whistler, Ken (2003-08-05), More on Meteg and CGJ [2] L2/03-236 Whistler, Ken (2003-08-05), More on Meteg and CGJ...
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layout (such as macOS). The rafe diacritic (◌ֿ) and two cantillation marks, meteg (◌ֽ) and ole (◌֫), were added. True Hebrew gershayim (״), quotes („”) and...
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Metheg-ammah (Hebrew: מֶ֥תֶג הָאַמָּ֖ה Meṯeḡ hā’Ammāh) is a biblical word or phrase that has caused some difficulty for biblical scholars and translators...
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missing / full Mater lectionis Abbreviations Plene scriptum Punctuation Diacritics Meteg Cantillation Geresh Gershayim Inverted nun Shekel sign Numerals...
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the Nevi'im, with two small treatises at the end—Ma'amar haMa'arikh, on meteg in Hebrew cantillation, and Kelale BeGaDKaFaT on the begadkefat. A second...
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