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from what i gathered its just put at the start of a question, would you not be able to recognize a question without it?
in hebrew most questions have a question-word right at the start which serves this role. but since adopting the question mark into hebrew you can use it to turn a statement
>אתה בבית
'you are home'
into a question
>אתה בבית?
'are you home?'
without a question-word which was very uncommon in ancient hebrew iirc