Jastrow: נְקוּדָּה

נְקוּדָּה f. (b. h. נְקֻדָּה; preced.) point, dot, drop. Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᵈ top יש שהוא כותב נ׳ אחת וכ׳ sometimes a man writes one dot (a touch of the pen by which a Daleth is changed into a Resh &c.). Y. Ḥag. II, 77ᶜ והוא מראה להן בנ׳ (של מעלן) וכ׳ and it (the letter Beth) points with its upper stroke (saying), He above (has created me); ib. נ׳ לאחריו the projecting point (of the Beth) beneath to the right side; Pesik. R. s. 21; (Gen. R. s. 1 עוקץ); a. fr.—Pl. נְקוּדּוֹת. Y. Gitt. II, 44ᵇ top אפי׳ עירב נ׳ even if he connected the dots (which he had dropped to form letters, v. נָטַף); a. fr.—Esp. (Massorah) mark by diacritical dots above letters. Ab. d’R. N. ch. XXXIV מעליהן) אעביר נ׳ (not אעבור) I will remove the dots from above them. Gen. R. s. 48, v. כְּתָב; a. fr.—Pl. as ab. Ab. d’R. N. l. c.; Treat. Sof’rim VI, 3 עשר נ׳ בתורה there are ten passages in the Torah marked with dots; a. fr.