Crossword-Solution: MASORA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Masora | n. | A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries. |
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| MASORA | anagram | AROMAS |
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| HEBREW Old Testament notes | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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TREAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with MASORA (5)
Mary of Egypt, (N.E.D.) MARTAGAN, Turk's cap lily MARYHINCHCO, stringhalt MASORETH, Masora, correct form of the scriptural text according to Hebrew tradition Mass, abb.
Young ladies and young gentlemen form classes for mutual aid and 'mutual admiration' while they clasp hands over the Masora.
This work is ascribed to learned Jews of Tiberias, called _Masoretes_, from _Masora_, _tradition_; and the Hebrew text thus furnished by them is called the _Masoretic_, in distinction from the _unpointed_ text, which latter is, according to Jewish usage, retained in the synagogue-rolls.
The doctors decided in favor of the more accommodating system, by which the stern exclusiveness of the original letter was extenuated, and the law of the rude tribes of Palestine moulded to the varied taste and temper of a cosmopolitan society, while the text itself was embalmed in the _Masora_, an elaborate system of punctuation and notation, to every particle of which, to insure its uncorrupted preservation, a mystical significance was attached.
Masoretic points and accents, the vowel points and accents of the Hebrew text of the Bible, of which the first mention is in the Masora.