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A contracted sacred name under a bar.
Also known as: Sacred name contraction, Contracted holy name
The scribal practice of contracting a sacred name to its first and last letters beneath a horizontal bar.
Contracts a sacred name to its first and last letters beneath a bar in Christian manuscripts.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Marks reverence rather than saving space, which is why the contraction is applied to a small closed set of words and not wherever it would fit.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Religion
Two or three letters with a horizontal bar drawn across the top of the whole group.