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The Hebrew/Aramaic writing system entails two sets of marks: nikudim (vowel points) and te‘amim, variously called cantillation marks, accents, or trop(e)s. This resource provides documentation for a suite of resources that visualize the cantillation marks as a hierarchy, using a “binary” tree diagram and other methods to annotate the cantillation marks in the Hebrew Bible.

The marks and rules are different for prose texts and poetry texts. There are three books that use rules for poetry. These are Job, Psalms, and Proverbs. All other books, from the perspective of application of mark system, are prose. The prose symbols are arranged into an absolute ranked order of high emperors, emperors, kings, dukes, and officers. Ranked order for poetry is emperors, kings, dukes, and officers. To apply the marks, the text of the highest rank is then scanned and divided in half,
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