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has gloss | eng: Inverted nun (נו"ן מנוזרת "isolated nun" or נו"ן הפוכה "inverted nun" in Hebrew ) is a rare character – the letter nun in mirror image – which appears in the Masoretic text of the Tanakh in nine different places: * Twice in the Book of Numbers, 10:35–36: the two verses are delineated by inverted nuns. * Seven times in chapter 107 of the Book of Psalms. |
lexicalization | eng: inverted nun |
instance of | (noun) a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino) Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew script, Hebrew alphabet |
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Hebrew | |
has gloss | heb: נו"ן הפוכה (׆) או נו"ן מנוזרת (מובדלת) היא סימן בטקסט המקראי, כמן נ' הפוכה, ככתב ראי, המופיע במהדורות נוסח המסורה של התנ"ך בתשעה מקומות. |
lexicalization | heb: נו"ן הפוכה |
lexicalization | heb: נו"ן מנוזרת |
lexicalization | heb: נון הפוכה |
lexicalization | heb: נון מנוזרת |
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media:img | Inverted letter nun 1.jpg |
media:img | Inverted letter nun 1.png |
media:img | Inverted letter nun 2.jpg |
media:img | Inverted letter nun 2.png |
media:img | Inverted letter nun 3.jpg |
media:img | Inverted letter nun 3.png |
media:img | Inverted nun in Aleppo Codex.jpg |
media:img | Letter nun.jpg |
media:img | Sefer-torah-vayehi-binsoa.jpg |
media | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category%3AInverted_nun |
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