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Definition of Masorete

Masorete
Masoret Mas"o*ret, n. A Masorite. [Written also Masorete, and Massorete.]

Meaning of Masorete from wikipedia

- The Masoretes (Hebrew: בַּעֲלֵי הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized: Baʿălēy Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were groups of Jewish scribe-scholars who...
- primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of Jews known as the Masoretes between the 7th and 10th centuries of the Common Era (CE). The oldest...
- western s**** of the Sea of Galilee. He was descended from a long line of Masoretes, starting with someone called Asher, but nothing is known about them other...
- spaces between words to aid in reading. By the eighth century CE, the Masoretes added vowel signs. Levites or scribes maintained the texts, and some texts...
- Hebrew vowel points of Adonai were added to the Tetragrammaton by the Masoretes, and the resulting form was transliterated around the 12th century CE...
- instead used Hebrew or Aramaic Targum m****cripts later compiled by the Masoretes and authoritative Aramaic translations, such as those of Onkelos and Rabbi...
- romanized: ʾAbbū ʿĪmrān, Mōše ben Dāwīḏ ben Nap̄tālī) was a rabbi and Masorete who flourished around 890-940 CE, probably in Tiberias. Of his life little...
- Masoretic Text, the authoritative text of the Tanakh for Rabbinic Judaism Masoretes, scribes who p****ed down the Masoretic text Masortim, meaning "traditional"...
- "They pierced my hands and my feet" was used in Psalm 22:16 (vs. the Masoretes' reading of the Hebrew "like lions my hands and feet"). Otherwise, however...
- Hebrew Bible when this was in fact a medieval version created by the Masoretes. The oldest nearly-complete m****cripts of the Old Testament include the...