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  2. Hebrew cantillation - Wikipedia

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    Letters in black, niqqud (vowel points) and d'geshim (gemination marks) in red, cantillation in blue. Bare transliteration: wy‘mr ‘lhym yqww hmym. With accents: way-yōmer ĕlōhīm yiqqāwū ham-mayim. Hebrew cantillation, trope, trop, or te'amim is the manner of chanting ritual readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue services.

  3. Tally marks - Wikipedia

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    Tally marks, also called hash marks, are a form of numeral used for counting. They can be thought of as a unary numeral system . They are most useful in counting or tallying ongoing results, such as the score in a game or sport, as no intermediate results need to be erased or discarded.

  4. Shalshelet - Wikipedia

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    The Shalshelet (Hebrew: שַלְשֶלֶת) is a cantillation mark found in the Torah. It is one of the rarest used, occurring just four times in the entire Torah, [1] in Genesis 19:16, 24:12, and 39:8, and in Leviticus 8:23. The four words accented with the shalshelet mark all occur at the beginning of the verse. [2]

  5. Book of Numbers - Wikipedia

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    ' In [the] desert '; Latin: Liber Numeri) is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. [1] The book has a long and complex history; its final form is possibly due to a Priestly redaction (i.e., editing) of a Yahwistic source made sometime in the early Persian period (5th century BC). [ 2 ]

  6. Statistics of the Hebrew Bible - Wikipedia

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    Statistics of the Hebrew Bible is the counting of verses, words, and letters in the Bible which has been known since the days of the Talmud (around the 3rd century). Later in the Masora period (between the 5th and 10th centuries), counting words and letters was one of the basic acts that were done to create a uniform version of the Bible and to ...

  7. Biblical Hebrew orthography - Wikipedia

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    [34] [nb 6] However, there are a number of exceptions, e.g. when the following syllable contains a vowel letter (as in קֹלֹוֹת 'voices' rather than קוֹלוֹת) or when a vowel letter already marks a consonant (so גּוֹיִם 'nations' rather than גּוֹיִים *), and within the Bible there is often little consistency in ...

  8. List of numeral system topics - Wikipedia

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    Tally mark – Numeral form used for counting-yllion – Mathematical notation This page was last edited on 24 January 2025, at 18:33 (UTC). Text is available ...

  9. Masoretic Text - Wikipedia

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    The 1866 edition, however, was carefully checked against old manuscripts and early printed editions, and has a very legible typeface. It is probably the most widely reproduced text of the Hebrew Bible in history, with many dozens of authorised reprints and many more pirated and unacknowledged ones. [59] Seligman Baer and Franz Delitzsch, 1869 ...