Crossword-Solution: MASORAH 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

These are called collectively the _Masorah_, of which there is a fuller Masorah called the _greater_ (found only in Rabbinical Bibles), and a briefer, called the _less_, the main part of which is found in common editions of the Hebrew Bible.

The margin contains more or less of the Masorah; sometimes prayers, psalms, rabbinical commentaries, etc.

Whether because the Hebrew text was rigidly settled in its present form in the days of the Talmudists, or because their quotations have been made to agree with the Masorah, an examination of the Talmud furnishes few various readings that are of any importance.

The former they call Masorah, which signifieth "tradition." The other is called Cabbala, which signifieth "reception;" but both of them denote the same thing, that is, a knowledge down from generation to generation, in the doing of which, there being tradition on the one hand, and reception on the other, that which relates to the readings of the Hebrew Scriptures hath its name from the former, and that which relates to the interpretations of them from the latter.

This text was the work of a special gild of trained scholars called Massoretes ([Hebrew: baalei hamasoreth]) or "masters of tradition" ([Hebrew: masorah] or less correctly [Hebrew: masoreth]),[2] whose aim was not only to preserve and transmit the consonantal text which had been handed down to them, but also to ensure its proper pronunciation.