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  2. Tiberian Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    Tiberian Hebrew is the canonical pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) committed to writing by Masoretic scholars living in the Jewish community of Tiberias in ancient Galilee c. 750–950 CE under the Abbasid Caliphate. They wrote in the form of Tiberian vocalization, [1] which employed diacritics added to the Hebrew letters: vowel signs ...

  3. Masoretic Text - Wikipedia

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    Bible. The Masoretic Text[a] (MT or 𝕸; Hebrew: נֻסָּח הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized: Nūssāḥ hamMāsōrā, lit. 'Text of the Tradition') is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in Rabbinic Judaism. The Masoretic Text defines the Jewish canon and its precise letter-text, with its ...

  4. Biblical Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    Biblical Hebrew (עִבְרִית מִקְרָאִית ‎ (Ivrit Miqra'it) ⓘ or לְשׁוֹן הַמִּקְרָא ‎ (Leshon ha-Miqra) ⓘ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the ...

  5. Hebrew diacritics - Wikipedia

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    Hebrew orthography includes three types of diacritics: Niqqud in Hebrew is the way to indicate vowels, which are omitted in modern orthography, using a set of ancillary glyphs. Since the vowels can be understood from surrounding letters, context can help readers read the correct pronunciations of several letters of the Hebrew alphabet (the rafe ...

  6. Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    e. The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh[a] (/ tɑːˈnɑːx /; [1] Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ ‎ Tanaḵ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (/ miːˈkrɑː /; Hebrew: מִקְרָא ‎ Mīqrāʾ ‍. ), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim. Different branches of Judaism and Samaritanism have ...

  7. John 1:14 - Wikipedia

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    John 1:14. ← 1:13. 1:15 →. The Latin inscription "Verbum Caro Factum Est" meaning "the Word was made flesh" taken from John 1:14 at the pulpit of Ribe Cathedral (1597) Book. Gospel of John. Christian Bible part. New Testament. John 1:14 is the fourteenth verse in the first chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian ...

  8. Hebrew cantillation - Wikipedia

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    Most cantillation signs are written on the consonant of the stressed syllable of a word. This also shows where the most important note of the musical motif should go. A few signs always go on the first or last consonant of a word. This may have been for musical reasons, or it may be to distinguish them from other accents of similar shape.

  9. Tetragrammaton - Wikipedia

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    The Tetragrammaton in Phoenician (12th century BCE to 150 BCE), Paleo-Hebrew (10th century BCE to 135 CE), and square Hebrew (3rd century BCE to present) scripts. The Tetragrammaton[note 1] is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה ‎ (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four letters, written and read ...