Jump to content

ֽ

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
◌ֽ U+05BD, ֽ
HEBREW POINT METEG
◌ּ
[U+05BC]
Hebrew ־
[U+05BE]

Hebrew

[edit]

Diacritical mark

[edit]

ֽ (transliteration needed)

  1. (Biblical Hebrew) silluq, a disjunctive cantillation mark used on the last word of a verse that marks a pause
  2. (Biblical Hebrew) meteg, used to mark secondary stress
  3. (Biblical Hebrew) meteg, used to mark a long vowel (and indirectly marks that a syllable is open and that a following shva is vocal)
  4. (modern, liturgical, lexicography) meteg, used to mark primary stress
    Synonym: ◌֫ (oleh)