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.
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 ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.