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A line meaning no dot.
Also known as: Soft letter mark
The Hebrew mark drawn above a letter to show explicitly that it carries no dagesh.
States that the letter beneath it does not carry a dagesh and is therefore pronounced soft.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Marks an absence explicitly rather than leaving it implied, which was worth doing when a manuscript's dots might be faded or omitted — the mark is insurance against the failure of another mark.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Largely dropped from printed Hebrew Bibles, surviving mainly in Yemenite and some Sephardi traditions and in scholarly editions.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
A short horizontal line drawn above the letter.