Geminate

Hebrew

Example: according to the rules of the dagesh ḥazak, the definite articleהַha "the" causes the next letter to be functionally geminated: in הַכֹּלhakol ("everything", literally "the all"), the כּ is geminated (it has a dagesh ḥazak dot inside it), and is thus pronounced k. On the other hand, the preposition בְּbe "in, with, by" does not cause the next letter to be geminated, so in בְּכֹלbekhol "in all, by all", the כ is not geminated (no dagesh ḥazak dot inside it), and is thus pronounced kh. This illustrates how the rules of gemination influence pronunciation in modern Hebrew. The difference between the geminated כּ and the ungeminated כ would not be visible in a regular, unpointed text (כ would appear in both cases), but the letters would still be pronounced differently.