unpointed

«unpointed» in Mova's judaism dictionary: Written without the little dots and dashes that show vowels — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

Written without the little dots and dashes that show vowels. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Ancient Hebrew was written with only consonants. Later scribes added vowel marks ("points"), so an unpointed word can be read in more than one way. Interpretation: Hebrew scholars note that unpointed words can have several readings. The same letters can then give different meanings, which is why the commentators study them closely.

examples

• Letters and Sounds, The three Hebrew words here given are, in unpointed Hebrew, SPR, SPR and SIPUR. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• God of Israel, Here the word God is ALHI, which in unpointed Hebrew might be God, or Gods, or My God. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →

note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unpointed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.