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Basics of Hebrew Accents provides readers of biblical Hebrew with a comprehensive working knowledge of accentuation. Hebrew accents can be perplexing but knowing them and their functions will help students become better readers of the Hebrew Bible. The book is an ideal tool for beginning students who are learning to read the language as well as for more advanced students who are reading and...

far closer to the original community than our own. According to this ancient interpretation, the stars are joined to the lesser light and implicitly share in the rule of the night. If the intention were to separate the stars from the two great lights, we might expect atnakh on הַלַּיְלָה (“the night”). This interpretation comports with Psalm 136:9a, “the moon and stars to govern the night.” Zaqeph gadol ◌◌֕ is a substitute for zaqeph qaton. If you encounter zaqeph gadol, think of
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