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A mark dividing a verse into clauses.
Also known as: Disjunctive te'amim, Dividing accent Hebrew, Pausal accent
A Hebrew cantillation accent marking a division in the sense of a verse, dividing it into successively smaller units.
Marks a division in the sense of a Hebrew biblical verse.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Operates in a hierarchy, so the accents divide a verse into halves, then those into parts, and the strength of the mark says how deep the division is.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
A small mark set above or below a letter, one of a set distinguished from each other by shape and position.