What ׃ means
It marks the end of a Hebrew Bible verse.
The verse divisions are older than the written mark. In the Talmudic period, sources already discuss them; the Talmud is a major collection of Jewish teaching and debate. The Tiberian Masoretes, scholars who recorded Hebrew Bible reading traditions, developed the written notation in the early Islamic period through the 10th century.
In cantillation—the marks that guide traditional Hebrew Bible reading—silluq accents the last word before ׃.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does ׃ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type ׃
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 05C3, then Alt+X to get ׃.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hebrew punctuation sof pasuq”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 05c3, then Enter or Space.
HTML
׃CSS
\05C3Biblical Hebrew/SIL layout
To type sof pasuq, use a Biblical Hebrew/SIL layout with a dedicated key; the standard Israeli layout has an ordinary colon instead.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
׃
HTML hex
׃
CSS content
content: "\05C3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%D7%83
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.