This templates generates definition lines for Hebrew defective spellings; that is, spellings that omit yuds and/or vavs that indicate vowel sounds. Defective spellings used to be standard for many words; Biblical and liturgical texts commonly use defective spellings.
Use of the template categorizes an entry in Category:Hebrew defective spellings.
|1=
: mandatory: the standard-spelled term|wv=
: optional: the same, with vowels|nocap=
: optional: if non-blank, don't capitalize the first letter