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Masoretes
The Masoretes (, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were groups of Jewish scribe-scholars who worked from around the end of the 5th through 10th centuries AD, based primarily in the Jewish centers of the Levant (e.g., Tiberias and Jerusalem) and Mesopotamia (e.g., Sura and Nehardea). Each group compiled a system of pronunciation and grammatical guides in the form of diacritical notes (niqqud) on the external form of the text of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) in an attempt to standardize its pronunciation, paragraph and verse divisions, and cantillation for the worldwide Jewish community.
mater lectionis
representation of vowels as independent letters where they would otherwise be indicated by optional diacritics in a given orthography
Modern Hebrew grammar
grammar of Modern Hebrew
Modern Hebrew verb
verb conjugation in Modern Hebrew grammar