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# unpointed

«unpointed» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Written without the little dots and dashes that show vowels** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Written without the little dots and dashes that show vowels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unpointed/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Ancient Hebrew was written with only consonants. Later scribes added vowel marks ("points"), so an unpointed word can be read in more than one way. Interpretation: Hebrew scholars note that unpointed words can have several readings. The same letters can then give different meanings, which is why the commentators study them closely.

### examples

- Letters and Sounds, The three Hebrew words here given are, in unpointed Hebrew, SPR, SPR and SIPUR. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unpointed/#x1)
- God of Israel, Here the word God is ALHI, which in unpointed Hebrew might be God, or Gods, or My God. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unpointed/#x2)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unpointed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/U/unpointed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.