Verbs are often accented on the second syllable.The Sheva (or chateph form) never receives the stress.A closed unaccented syllable must take a short vowel:.A long vowel in a closed syllable gets the stress:.If the last syllable has a long vowel, it usually has the stress:.The following information is provided for reference purposes only: Vowels are normally long in open syllables (i.e., ba, be, bo) and short in a closed syllables (ab, eb, ob). In general, unless otherwise indicated by some sort of accent mark, assume that the Hebrew word you are looking at is accented on the last syllable. The mark at the end of the pasuk ( : ) is called a Sof Pasuk, and simply indicates the end of the verse (somewhat like a period in modern English writing). Note: You do not need to memorize the names of these accent marks however, when you see one of them in your reading of the Tanakh, accent the syllable where the mark appears (for example, the silluq in the last word of the pasuk (verse) tells us to accent the pretonic syllable: ha- a-rets). ![]() The following shows Genesis 1:1 as you might see it in a typical Masoretic text:
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