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One letter written oversized.
Also known as: Majuscule letter Hebrew
The Masoretic convention writing certain letters larger than the surrounding text.
Marks certain letters in the Hebrew Bible by writing them larger than the surrounding text.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Preserved with the same precision as the consonants themselves, so a scribe copies the size as faithfully as the letter — a piece of typography treated as part of the text.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Explanations offered include marking the middle of a book, drawing attention to a word, or preventing a misreading, and the tradition does not settle between them.
The reasons offered for individual large letters are interpretive rather than documented.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
A single letter drawn at several times the height of the letters around it, breaking the even line of the text.