Adot placed in a consonant is called "Dagesh"
There are two types of dagesh:
1. -light dagesh
2. -strong dagesh
A.The comes only in the consonants
It changes the soft(spirant)sound of these consonants to
a hard (stopped)one.
In odern Hebrew the affects the pronunciation
only of the consonants . The are pronounced
identically with or without the
When the consonants come at the beginning
of aword or at the beginning of a syllable, a is placed
in them.*
B.the may come in any consonant except in the
guttirals and the .
The denotes the doubling of the consonant in
which it appears. E.g.,
bikkur
hazzan
The riles for the will be taken up in the course of the study of the grammar.
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*Note:
In classical Hebrew, no dagesh is placed in a word beginning
with any one of these consonants when such a word follows closely a word ending in any one of the following consonants: This rule is observed today only in reading of the Bible and the recitation of the prayers and poetry.
There are two types of dagesh:
1. -light dagesh
2. -strong dagesh
A.The comes only in the consonants
It changes the soft(spirant)sound of these consonants to
a hard (stopped)one.
In odern Hebrew the affects the pronunciation
only of the consonants . The are pronounced
identically with or without the
When the consonants come at the beginning
of aword or at the beginning of a syllable, a is placed
in them.*
B.the may come in any consonant except in the
guttirals and the .
The denotes the doubling of the consonant in
which it appears. E.g.,
bikkur
hazzan
The riles for the will be taken up in the course of the study of the grammar.
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*Note:
In classical Hebrew, no dagesh is placed in a word beginning
with any one of these consonants when such a word follows closely a word ending in any one of the following consonants: This rule is observed today only in reading of the Bible and the recitation of the prayers and poetry.
