books (all but the three poetic books), and the other serves for the three poetic books: Psalms, Job, and Proverbs. In addition, the accents are divided into two classes: disjunctive and conjunctive. The major disjunctive accents usually serve to divide the verse into two or more units of thought and are somewhat analogous to commas, semicolons, and periods in English. The conjunctive accents serve to highlight the close attachment of a word to the following word (i.e., that two or more words are