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    Meteg (or meseg or metheg, Hebrew: מֶתֶג‎, lit. 'bridle', also gaʿya געיה‎, lit. 'bellowing', מאריך‎ maʾarikh, or מעמיד‎ maʿamid) is a punctuation mark...
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  • adding a vertical line (called Meteg) underneath the letter and to the left of the vowel point, the vowel is made long. The meteg is only used in Biblical Hebrew...
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    placement of the meteg to the left of the segol is correct, which has a shva sign written as two vertical dots to denote short vowel. If a meteg were placed...
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  • vav with middle dot) in Israeli writing for the sake of disambiguation. Meteg is a vertical bar placed below a character next to the niqqud for various...
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  • Tiberian Hebrew, that is true only when the long vowel is marked with a meteg.) There are further differences: Sephardim now pronounce shewa na as /e/...
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    qamaṣ), whenever there is written beside one of these long vowel sounds a meteg (or what is also called a ga’ayah) and is denoted by a small vertical line...
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    missing / full Mater lectionis Abbreviations Plene scriptum Punctuation Diacritics Meteg Cantillation Geresh Gershayim Inverted nun Shekel sign Numerals...
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  • orthographically similar marks maqaf ־‎ -‎ hyphen geresh ֜‎ ֝‎ ׳‎ ' apostrophe gershayim ֞‎ ״‎ " quotation mark meteg ֽ‎   , comma inverted nun ׆ [ bracket...
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    transliterated as short. But if a vowel carries an accent ֫  or a meteg ֽ , then it is always long—a meteg in particular is often used in places where a vowel is...
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  • standard Hebrew keyboard at AltGr-6. In some books, other marks, such as meteg, are used. Accent (poetry) Accent (music) Foot (prosody) Initial-stress-derived...
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