Gershayim

For the Torah cantillation mark with the same name, see Gershayim (trope).
Gershayim
punctuation mark״פַּרְדֵּ״ס
cantillation mark֞וּרְד֞וּ
compare with quotation marks
"פַּרְדֵּ״ס", "וּרְד֞וּ"
Hebrew punctuation
Hebrew-specific marksorthographically similar marks
maqaf־-hyphen
geresh֜֝׳'apostrophe
gershayim֞״"quotation mark
metegֽ  ,comma
inverted nun׆[bracket

Gershayim (Hebrew: גֵּרְשַׁיִם, without niqqud גרשיים), also occasionally grashayim[1] (Hebrew: גְּרָשַׁיִם), names two distinct typographical marks in the Hebrew language. The name literally means "double geresh".

Punctuation mark

Gershayim most commonly refers to the punctuation mark ״. It is always written before the last letter of the non-inflected form of a word or numeral. It is used in the following ways:

Cantillation mark

For more details on this topic, see Gershayim (trope).

Gershayim is the name of a disjunctive cantillation accent in the Tanakh - ֞. It is placed above the stressed syllable, as in וַיִּקַּ֞ח (Genesis 22:3).[1]

Computer encoding

Most keyboards do not have a key for the gershayim. As a result, a quotation mark is often substituted for it.

Appearance Code Points Name
״ U+05F4 HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERSHAYIM
֞ U+059E HEBREW ACCENT GERSHAYIM

See also

Look up ״ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

References


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