{{Short description|Hebrew cantillation mark}} {{about|the Torah trope|the Moroccan band|Darga (band)|the Sufi shrine|Dargah}} {{Hebrew cantillation|name_en=Darga|name_he=דַּרְגָּ֧א|smbl=֧|smpl=תֽוֹלְד֧וֹת}} '''Darga''' ({{langx|he|דַּרְגָּא}}) is a cantillation mark commonly found in the Torah, Haftarah, and other books. The symbol for the darga resembles a backwards Z.<ref>Chanting the Hebrew Bible By Joshua R. Jacobson, page 45</ref>
The darga is a conjunctive (''mesharet'') which precedes disjunctives (''mafsikim'') Tevir, Mercha kefula and Revia, but the cases in which it appears differ dependig on the disjunctive: *Before a Tevir, the conjunctive is a darga only when there is at least four syllables between the conjunctive and the disjunctive (both included) as in וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים (Genesis 1:4). Otherwise it is a Mercha *When there is two conjunctives before a Revia, the first one is a darga (the second one is a Munach as usual) *The conjunctive which precedes a mercha kefulah is always a darga
The Aramaic word {{lang|he|rtl=yes|דַּרְגָּא}} translates into English as ''step''.
==Total occurrences== {| !'''Book''' !Number of appearances |- |Torah |1091<ref name=Price6>Concordance of the Hebrew accents in the Hebrew Bible: Concordance ..., Volume 1 By James D. Price, page 6</ref> |- | Genesis |253<ref name=Price6/> |- | Exodus |221<ref name=Price6/> |- | Leviticus |171<ref name=Price6/> |- | Numbers |237<ref name=Price6/> |- | Deuteronomy |209<ref name=Price6/> |- |Nevi'im |710<ref name=Price5>Concordance of the Hebrew accents in the Hebrew Bible: Concordance ..., Volume 1 By James D. Price, page 5</ref> |- |Ketuvim |637<ref name=Price5/> |}
==Melody== The Ashkenazic darga is recited in a fast, downward slope, as follows: File:Darga.jpg
The Sefardic darga is ascending, and the Moroccan darga is descending with a waver in the middle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bar-mitzva.com/tmikra.asp?kria=11&selng=s&sef=t|title = טעמי מקרא}}</ref>
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