Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Christopher Kimball <transcriber AT tanach.us>]

The Unicode/XML Westminster Leningrad Codex at:

http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml

has the following Unicode characters at the citations:

Deut 22:3 ve-khen ta'aseh:
               vav sheva kaf tsere darga final-nun space
               tav dagesh patah ayin hataf-patah shin sin-dot segol 
munah he

Deut 21:13 u-vakheta:
              vav dagesh bet qamats meteg kaf sheva tav qamats tevir he 
space

In these and other cases, the character names can be found by 
highlighting the text, holding the SHIFT key down, and clicking on the 
text.  The Unicode Hebrew character set can be found at

http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml#Coding

Almost every character in the Westminster Leningrad Codex corresponds to 
a unique character in Unicode Hebrew. The exception is the meteg.  The 
WLC specifies the position of the meteg with 3 codes (35, 75, 95) all of 
which result in the same Unicode Meteg (x05bd).  Transcription software 
positions the Unicode Meteg properly according to the WLC codes.

Chris Kimball
West Redding, CT USA



James Read wrote:
> Did you check the online version?
>
> http://www.tanach.us/
>
> James Christian
>
>
> Quoting AMK Judaica <amkjudaica AT hotmail.com>:
>
>   
> > 1) Deut. 22:3 ve-khen ta'aseh
> >
> > Mordechai Breuer and Michael Perlman record that Leningrad has munah  
> >  revi'a as the accents, but in Westminster, Dotan/Adi and BHS (which  
> >  as based on Leningrad) I see kadma azla.
> >
> > 2) Deut. 21:13 u-vakheta
> >
> > Dotan/Adi has a merkha on the bet, whereas Westminster and BHS have a meteg.
> >
> > If anyone has the Leningrad facs., please let me know which accents   
> > you see in these instances.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ari Kinsberg
> >
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