Thursday, March 27, 2014

Is it... can it be...? (Hebrew accent)

So here's a word from Proverbs 6:10.

It could be transliterated as ma`at, and it means "a little," or "a bit." Let me show you a couple of things about it. First, the large characters are the consonants:

Next, the little figures under the consonants are the vowel-points:

That leaves the little odd squiggle above the word, which is the accent:


The accents all mean something, and every word has an accent. My question is:

Does that accent mean that this is the word that will defeat Voldemort?


13 comments:

  1. I think it has one too many zigs for that...

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  2. To think that, if Harry had only studied Hebrew at Hogwarts, he'd have saved himself 7 years of heartache.

    Head asplode.

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  3. I'll confess: The whole pictogram does sorta look like Harry Potter with those tear-drop prison tats on his face.

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  4. Really though, what is that accent? I misplaced my "how to decipher all the wacky symbols in the Hebrew OT" manual.

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  7. Stephen, I believe it's a shalsheleth.

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  8. I've never seen that accent squiggle in 40 years of viewing Hebrew texts. There are various marks in Torahs. But they indicate the way to chant the words-they are almost musical notations.
    Which sources use that squiggle?

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  9. That's the text in BibleWorks, which uses the WTT, the Codex Leningradensis Hebrew Text.

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