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Seven Marks in the Storm Psalm — Psalm 107:21–26, 40

יוֹרְדֵי הַיָּם בָּאֳנִיּוֹת

yordei hayam ba'oniyot — “those who go down to the sea in ships”

Seven Marks in the Storm Psalm — Psalm 107:21–26, 40 in the Leningrad Codex
Psalm 107:21–26, 40 in the Leningrad Codex — the anomaly is marked.

What to look for

Seven inverted-nun marks stand in the margins beside the sailors' section of Psalm 107 — look at the column's edge next to the verses.

What it is

The only inverted nuns outside the Torah: seven marginal marks in the psalm of the four deliverances.

Why it matters

Together with the two in Numbers, Scripture holds exactly nine inverted nuns — seven of them clustered around verses of crying out and being delivered.

How it has been understood

No one knows for certain why these seven stand here; the leading view is that they flag verses the tradition considered displaced or specially set apart, like the Numbers pair. That honest uncertainty is part of the story: the scribes preserved marks whose full meaning they no longer claimed to possess, rather than erase what they had received.

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