Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Old style Hebrew quotation marks, from a 1923 translation of Robinson Crusoe. With most printed Hebrew texts from the early 1970s and before, opening quotation marks are low (as in German), and closing ones are high, often going above the letters themselves (as opposed to the gershayim, which is level with the top of letters).
The rules for article or section naming provided below apply only when there is no standard or official Anglicized name. However, the rules below apply to all cases of direct in-line transliterations which follow the Hebrew spelling, and may be radically different from the main Hebrew name (which could also be a translation), thus:
Lām has functions as a grammatical particle when used as a prefix: . Prepositional lām (لام جارة); Lām of ownership (لام المُلك); Lām of association (لام الاختصاص)
In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud (Hebrew: נִקּוּד, Modern: nikúd, Tiberian: niqqūḏ, "dotting, pointing" or Hebrew: נְקֻדּוֹת, Modern: nekudót, Tiberian: nəquddōṯ, "dots") is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected". Letters in black, pointing in red, cantillation in blue [1] 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.
The word dagesh in Hebrew.The red dot on the rightmost character (the letter dalet) is a dagesh.. The dagesh (Hebrew: דָּגֵשׁ dagésh) is a diacritic that is used in the Hebrew alphabet.
The system of Hebrew numerals is a quasi-decimal alphabetic numeral system using the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.The system was adapted from that of the Greek numerals sometime between 200 and 78 BCE, the latter being the date of the earliest archeological evidence.
Kamatz or qamatz (Modern Hebrew: קָמָץ, IPA:; alternatively קָמֶץ qāmeṣ) is a Hebrew niqqud sign represented by two perpendicular lines (looking like an uppercase T) ָ underneath a letter.