Lesson 10 | Cantillation

What we learned this lesson

1. Cantillation marks
2. There are two kinds: disjunctive and conjunctive.
3. Disjunctive:
4. Primary—The halfway point of a verse is marked with an atnakh: ב֑
5. Secondary
6. The zaqeph qaton divides each half of a verse in half again, so it marks the quarter-point of each verse: ב֔
7. The revia divides the quarters of a verse in half again: ב֗
8. The tiphkha functions either as like a zaqeph qaton (in shorter verses) or like a revia (in longer verses): ב֖
9. Conjunctive:
10. The merekha: ב֥
11. The munakh: ב֣
12. The mehuppakh: ב֤
13. Ketiv and qere
14. The Masoretes preserved the consonants and added a marginal reading to reflect how they believed the text should actually be read.
15. Biblearc enables you to see the different ketiv/qere readings by adding a gold dot after the end of the verse.
16. The two types of verbless clauses
17. Implied repeated verb
18. Implied stative verb