Hebrew accents
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- This disambiguation page is on grammatical Hebrew accents. For dialects, see Hebrew dialects.
Gen. 1:9 And God said, "Let the waters be collected".
Letters in black, niqqud in red, cantillation in blue
Letters in black, niqqud in red, cantillation in blue
There are two types of Hebrew accents that go on Hebrew letters.
- Niqqud - system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters
- Cantillation - used for the ritual chanting of readings from the Bible in synagogue services.

