Hebrew diacritics

The Niqqud signs and cantillation marks developed by the Masoretes are small in size compared to consonants, so they could be added to the consonantal texts without retranscribing them.

Notes: Meteg is a vertical bar placed below a character next to the niqqud for various purposes, including marking vowel length and secondary stress.

As a diacritic, the geresh is combined with the following consonants: Cantillation has a more limited use than vowel pointing, as it is only used for reciting the Tanakh, and is not found in children's books or dictionaries.

In 1675, the 2nd and 3rd canons of the so-called Helvetic Consensus of the Swiss Reformed Church confirmed Buxtorf's view as orthodox and affirmed that the vowel points were inspired.

[citation needed] Torah scrolls in Jewish synagogues do not have any diacritical marks whatsoever, only the letters themselves.

Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected".
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