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Damascus Pentateuch with Masorah
This image shows a leaf from the Damascus Pentateuch, with the Masorah in the margins. The Damascus Pentateuch is an incomplete Bible codex written around 1000 CE. This is the first page, which starts…
List of Terms for Biblical Grammar
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, the Lord of hosts, and the blessed One. His name is blessed in the mouths of all living creatures. The great God over everything, He is known through His world…
List of Large and Small Letters in the Bible
The consonantal Hebrew text that is the basis for the Masoretic Bible was transmitted with some orthographic irregularities. Among them are letters that were written larger or smaller than the…
Cairo Codex: Colophon
I, Moses Ben Asher, wrote this holy book of the Bible, dictated by myself, in accordance with the good hand of the Lord upon me [see Nehemiah 2:18], very clearly (Deuteronomy 27:8), in the province of…
An Early Manuscript Copy of the Book of Word Pairs
The consonantal Hebrew text that is the basis for the Masoretic Bible was transmitted with some orthographic irregularities. The Book of Word Pairs (Sefer okhlah va-okhlah) is an independent Masoretic…
Fine Details of the Accents
Dikduke ha-te‘amim
A Masoretic treatise that describes the vocalization and the accents of Hebrew words.