Generally understood as how a word is pronounced, 'vocalized'. In the written form, this means that it has to do with how vowels and consonants are arranged and divided into the proper syllable within a word.
The Hebrew alphabet, e.g., consists of only consonants. The same combination of consonants that make up a word can, therefore, be vocalized differently to give different senses. E.g., the Hebrew word dbr can mean 'speak' if it is pronounced dabar and 'speech' or 'thing' if the first 'a' is read a mite longer, 'speaker' if pronounced dibber, 'pestilence' if revocalizeddeber, and 'pasture' if dober.
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