"Puncta extraordinaria (extraordinary points) occur fifty-six times in the Old Testament text: fifty-three times above letters and three times below letters. The electronic edition of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia text notes that the function of these marks "is not entirely clear ...""
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John Hudson: SBL Hebrew Font User Manual, p. 14. Version 1.51 (February 2008). Society of Biblical Literature.
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