Definitions
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- noun The symbol "
׳ ", that serves as adiacritical mark , or apunctuation mark , inHebrew .
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Examples
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Classical Hebrew used a geresh (see above), written to the left, as a thousands separator.
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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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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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