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- noun rare The Hebrew character
״ , used to indicate acronyms and other multi-letter abbreviations.
Etymologies
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The gerash, or the double-prime called gershayim (dual number), appeared often in Hebrew manuscripts to distinguish numbers (written with ordinary alphabetic letters) from regular text.
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The gerash, or the double-prime called gershayim (dual number), appeared often in Hebrew manuscripts to distinguish numbers (written with ordinary alphabetic letters) from regular text.
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The gerash, or the double-prime called gershayim (dual number), appeared often in Hebrew manuscripts to distinguish numbers (written with ordinary alphabetic letters) from regular text.
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(Shin followed by ger shayim Vav followed by gershayim Final_Mem)
Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906
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To distinguish numbers from text, Hebrew used a geresh written to the right (i.e., preceding) of a single-character number, and used gershayim (a type of double quote mark) to the left (i.e., following) of the terminal character.
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The '' gerash '', or the double-prime called '' gershayim '' (dual number), appeared often in Hebrew manuscripts to distinguish numbers (written with ordinary alphabetic letters) from regular text.
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The '' gerash '', or the double-prime called '' gershayim '' (dual number), appeared often in Hebrew manuscripts to distinguish numbers (written with ordinary alphabetic letters) from regular text.
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To distinguish numbers from text, Hebrew used a geresh written to the right (i.e., preceding) of a single-character number, and used gershayim (a type of double quote mark) to the left (i.e., following) of the terminal character.
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The reading should be peri shnt (Pe Resh Yod, Shin Noon fol lowed by gershayim Samech.
Rashi Liber, Maurice 1906
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