Masoret

masoret English Noun en Masorete. en 1838 The New Testament, arranged in chronological and historical order, with copious notes on the principal subjects in theology George Townsend The Masorets, by their great care and diligence, have left us an edition of the Old Testament, which secures the text from all interpolations, while it checks also the licentiousness of conjectural criticism, and gives a definite meaning to many obscure passages; at the same time, it by no means precludes the labours of the learned from aiming at greater accuracy in their attempts to understand Scripture, as the sense which the Masorets may have put upon any passage can only be said to be highly probable: the meaning of Scripture in all cases being derivable from the words, and not from the vowel points, or any arbitrary divisions. en 1889 Introduction to the Sacred Scriptures: In Two Parts John MacDevitt 13 Having thus fixed the correct reading, the Masorets determined to prevent as far as possible, the danger of any future departure from it. en 2009 Called to Serve John A. Peck 4 1435741943 It is a version of the Hebrew Old Testament, translated from 700-1000 a.d. (yes, that's right) by the Masorets, Jewish scholars trying to translate the Old Testament back into Hebrew from fragments of existing Hebrew, oral tradition, and the Septuagint. A Masorah. en 1827 An Introduction to the Old Testament Johann Jahn; Samuel Hulbeart Turner; William Rollinson Whittingham 160 ...the transcribers themselves have candidly intimated by the suspended Nun that סשמ is the genuine reading, and the Masorets also expressly state, that the Nun was inserted, in order that the first idolatrous priest should not be said to be a grandson of Moses. en 1860 The Protestant Theological and Ecclesiastical Encyclopedia Johann Jakob Herzog 413 Where the Keri's have to do with exegesis or grammar, by far the largest part of them proceed immediately from the Masorets themselves. en 2001 Fixing God's Torah: The Accuracy of the Hebrew Bible Text in Jewish Law B. Barry Levy 019514113X This is surprising, because in the Masoret it is plene, but we have found that the Masoret disagrees with the Talmud in Tractate Shabbat [55b]. Anagrams en aemorst Moretas amorets artsome maestro omertas omertàs roamest tarsome