Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • The scribes; the ancient teachers or expounders of the Jewish oral law.

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  • The sopherim were so called because they wrote out the law, or because they classified and arranged its precepts, or because they counted with scrupulous minuteness every elapse and letter It contained.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • -- (1) Three meanings are connected with the verb saphar, the root of sopherim -- (a) to write, (b) to set in order, (c) to count.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

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