Hebrew accents

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This disambiguation page is on grammatical Hebrew accents. For dialects, see Hebrew dialects (disambiguation).
Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected".
Letters in black, niqqud in red, cantillation in blue

There are two types of Hebrew accents that go on Hebrew letters:

  • Niqqud, a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters
  • Hebrew cantillation, used for the ritual chanting of readings from the Bible in synagogue services