• Geresh (׳‎ in Hebrew: גֶּרֶשׁ‎ or גֵּרֶשׁ‎ [ˈɡeʁeʃ], or medieval [ˈɡeːɾeːʃ]) is a sign in Hebrew writing. It has two meanings. An apostrophe-like sign...
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  • (example: Genesis 1:1a). Azla Geresh/Geresh "Azla divorced" (if called "azla geresh") or "Expulsion, divorce" (if called just "geresh"). So called because it...
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  • of the letter and is called a geresh. The pronunciation of the following letters can also be modified with the geresh diacritic. The represented sounds...
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  • Geresh (Hebrew: גֵּרֵשׁ, with variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books of the Hebrew Bible. It is...
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  • also listed as part of the niqqud system but are not in common use)[*]; geresh and gershayim, two diacritics that are not considered a part of niqqud,...
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  • Currency until 1980. Its sign is I£, and its abbreviation is ל״י‎. The geresh ⟨׳‎⟩, is the Hebrew equivalent of a period in abbreviations (e.g. abbrev...
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  • tav without a dagesh is sometimes /d/.[clarification needed] Tav with a geresh (ת׳‎) is sometimes used in order to represent the TH digraph in loanwords...
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  • ARMENIAN APOSTROPHE U+059C ֜ HEBREW ACCENT GERESH U+059D ֝ HEBREW ACCENT GERESH MUQDAM U+05F3 ׳ HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH U+1FBD ᾽ GREEK KORONIS U+1FBF ᾿ GREEK...
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    teth-shin, as in Yiddish. A Hebrew variant is צ׳אצ׳קע, using צ (tsade) with a geresh to represent the sound [t͡ʃ]. Depending on the context, the term has a connotation...
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    alphabet also does the same thing with niqqud such as "Rafe" (רָפֶה) "◌ﬞ" or "Geresh" (גֶּרֶשׁ) "◌׳", for example "ב" produces the sound [b], and "בﬞ" or "ב׳"...
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