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RAFE - In Hebrew orthography the rafe, or more commonly spelt raphe (Hebrew: pro noun ced [afe]), is a diacritic ( ), a subtle horizontal o verb ar placed a...
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In Hebrew orthography the rafe, or more commonly spelt raphe (Hebrew: pronounced [afe]), is a diacritic ( ), a subtle horizontal overbar placed above certain letters to indicate that they are to be pronounced as fricatives. * It originated with the Tiberian Masoretes as part of the extended system of niqqud (vowel points), and has the opposite meaning to dagesh qal, showing that one of the letters is to be pronounced as a fricative and not as a plosive, or (sometimes) that a consonant is single and not double; or, as the opposite to a mappiq, to show that the letters or are silent (mater lectionis). * The rafe generally fell out of use for Hebrew with the coming of printing, although according to Gesenius (1813) at that time it could still be found in a few places in printed Hebrew Bibles, where the absence of a dagesh or a mappiq was particularly to be noted. (e.g. Exodus 20:13,14,15; Deuteronomy 5:13,17,18,19; 2 Samuel 11:1; Isaiah 22:10; Jeremiah 20:17; Psalm 119:99; Zechariah 5 |