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Cantillation is the ritual chanting of prayers and responses. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It often specifically refers to Jewish Hebrew cantillation . Cantillation sometimes refers to diacritics used in texts that are to be chanted in liturgy .
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 and notated in accordance with the special signs or marks printed in the Masoretic Text of the Bible, to complement the letters and vowel points .
Mahpach (Hebrew: מַהְפַּךְ, with variant English spellings) is a common cantillation mark found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of the Katan group, and it frequently begins the group. The symbol for the Mahpach is <. [1] Mahpach is always followed by a pashta.
Revia (Hebrew: רְבִיעַ, [r ə viaʕ]) is a cantillation mark commonly found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other biblical texts.. It is commonly explained as being the Aramaic equivalent of Hebrew רְבִיעִי Revi'i, meaning 'fourth' or 'quarter'., [1] and for that reason is sometimes called Revi'i.
Zakef Katan (Hebrew: זָקֵף קָטָ֔ן, lit. 'upright small'; various romanizations [1]), often referred to simply as katan, is a cantillation mark commonly found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible.
Mercha kefula (Hebrew: מֵרְכָא כְּפוּלָה, with variant English spellings) is a rare cantillation mark that occurs 5 times in the Torah (once in Genesis, once in Exodus, once in Leviticus, and twice in Numbers) and once in the Haftarah (for Behaalotecha and for the intermediate Shabbat for Chanukah, in the Book of Zechariah.)
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]
Zakef Gadol (Hebrew: זָקֵף גָּדוֹל, with variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark that is commonly found in the Torah and Haftarah. It is represented by a vertical line on the left and two dots one on top of the other on the right. The Zakef gadol is one of two versions of the Zakef trope.