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A dot inside a Hebrew letter.
Also known as: Dagesh dot, Hebrew inner dot, Point inside a letter, Dagesh hazaq
The dagesh is a dot inside a letter, and it does two unrelated jobs: in some letters it hardens the sound, in others it marks doubling. Which job it is doing depends on the letter and its position, so the same dot means different things in the same word.
Denotes a dot placed within a Hebrew letter, hardening its pronunciation or marking gemination.
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Serves two grammatically distinct functions — dagesh qal for hardening and dagesh hazaq for doubling — which are told apart by the letter and its position rather than by any difference in the mark.
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Is part of the niqqud pointing system, added to the consonantal text long after it was written.
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A single small dot placed within the body of a Hebrew letter, centred in its enclosed or open space.