Sof passuk
| Sof passuk | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| cantillation | |||||||
| Sof passuk | ׃ | Paseq | ׀ | ||||
| Etnakhta/atnakh | ֑ | Segol | ֒ | ||||
| Shalshelet | ֓ | Zakef katan | ֔ | ||||
| Zakef gadol | ֕ | Tifcha/tarkha | ֖ | ||||
| Rivia | ֗ | Zarka | ֘ | ||||
| Pashta | ֙ | Yetiv | ֚ | ||||
| Tevir | ֛ | Geresh | ֜ | ||||
| Geresh muqdam | ֝ | Gershayim | ֞ | ||||
| Karne parah | ֟ | Telisha gedola/talsha | ֠ | ||||
| Pazer | ֡ | Atnah hafukh | ֢ | ||||
| Munakh/shofar holekh | ֣ | Mahpach | ֤ | ||||
| Merkha/ma’arikh | ֥ | Mercha kefula | ֦ | ||||
| Darga | ֧ | Qadma | ֨ | ||||
| Telisha qetana/tarsa | ֩ | Yerah ben yomo | ֪ | ||||
| Ole | ֫ | Illuy | ֬ | ||||
| Dehi | ֭ | Tsinnorit | ֮ | ||||
The sof passuk (Hebrew: סוֹף פָּסוּק, romanized: sof pāsuq, lit. 'end of verse') is the mark of Hebrew cantillation that occurs on the last word of every verse, or pasuq, in the Hebrew Bible. Some short verses contain only members of the sof passuk group. A sof pasuq is preceded by the סילוק silluq in the last word of the verse.
The conjunctive (mesharet) which precedes the sof pasuq is always a mercha. The last disjunctive (mafsiq) before it is always a tipcha, or eventually a etnachta.
In some rare cases, and only when the last disjunctive was an etnachta, the secondary stress of the sof pasuw is replaced by a tipcha instead of the usual meteg, as in לְדֹרֹ֖תֵיכֶֽם (Numbers 15:21). This combination is called me'ayelá (מְאַיְלָא Biblical Hebrew pronunciation: [məʾēyəlā]).