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Definition of Massorete
1. Noun. A scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Massorete
Literary usage of Massorete
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... but were inserted by the massorete Jews of Tiberias, not earlier than the sth
century AD, and that the primitive Hebrew characters are those now known ..."
2. Canon and Text of the Old Testament by Frants Buhl (1892)
"Examples of passages in which the LXX. and other versions divide otherwise than
the massorete text, are the following: Ps. xvii. 3 f., xxiii. ..."
3. A Handbook to Old Testament Hebrew: Containing an Elementary Grammar of the by Samuel Gosnell Green (1901)
"But the most interesting result of this massorete method of distinguishing the
written from the read is that which has given us the vowels of the word ..."
4. The Thinker: A Review of World-wide Christian Thought (1895)
"We may appeal to the extreme care and accuracy of the massorete editors of the
text ; but that care for rigid uniformity was by no means characteristic of ..."
5. The Cambrian (1894)
"Eventually in the sixth century of our era the massorete commenced their work of
counting every letter of the sacred volume, and by means of the vowel ..."
6. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"... n. one of the Jewish scholars who contributed to the formation of the Masora [also
spelt massorete] 'maesa- zit. masquerade я. ..."
7. Was Israel Ever in Egypt?, Or, A Lost Tradition by George Henry Bateson Wright (1895)
"... differs widely from the massorete, and frequently is to be preferred, for the
illumination it casts on dark, unintelligible, and contradictory passages. ..."
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