te'amim

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Te'amim are the traditional system of cantillation marks used in Hebrew scripture to guide chanting, phrasing, and accentuation.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Te'amim 0

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hebrew cantillation marks
Masoretic cantillation
cantillation system
alsoKnownAs ta'amei ha-mikra
trop
appliedTo biblical verses
consonantal Hebrew text
developedBy Masorah
surface form: Masoretes
developedIn Tiberias
developedInPeriod early Middle Ages
encodedIn Unicode Hebrew block
function guide chanting
indicate cantillation
indicate musical motifs
indicate stress
mark accentuation
mark syntactic phrasing
govern division of verses
minor phrase breaks
pausal structure
hasTradition Ashkenazi cantillation tradition
Italian cantillation tradition
Sephardi cantillation tradition
Yemenite cantillation tradition
hasVariantSystem Babylonian cantillation
Palestinian cantillation
Tiberian cantillation
includeCategory conjunctive accents
disjunctive accents
language Hebrew
notationType diacritic signs
subscript marks
superscript marks
partOf Masorah
surface form: Masoretic Text tradition
relatedTo Hebrew vowel points
Masorah
surface form: Masoretic vocalization
religiousTradition Judaism
script Hebrew script
usedBy Jewish communities
Torah reading
surface form: Torah readers

cantors
usedFor private study of scripture
public liturgical reading
usedIn Haftarah reading
Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Megillot chanting
Tanakh
Torah reading

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Hebrew hasCantillationSystem te'amim