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Nequdot
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Nequdot (also termed
puncta extraordinaria) are para-textual dots written above certain letters and words in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. In the Pentateuch these dots occur in ten verses: Gen. 16.5; 18.9; 19.33; 33.4; 37.12; Num. 3.39; 8.10; 21.20; 29.15; Deut. 29.28. They also are seen at five other sites: 2 Sam. 19.20; Isa. 44.9; Ezek. 41.20; 46.22; Ps. 27.13. The existence of the dots is flagged in Masora Parva in the margin of Masoretic codices by the abbreviated note נקוד (i.e., נקודות
nequdot). These supralineal dots are a different order of marking from the Heb…
