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Read this, though it is written that.
Also known as: Read and written
The Masoretic convention recording that a word is to be read differently from the way it is written.
Records that the traditional reading of a word differs from the consonants written in the text.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Solves an apparently impossible problem: the consonants may not be altered and the reading may not be lost, so the line carries one word's letters with another word's vowels and the margin holds the rest.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Produces a form that cannot be pronounced as written, which is the visible sign to a reader that a note applies.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
The written consonants left untouched in the line, carrying the vowel points of the word to be read instead, with those consonants given as a note in the margin.