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- noun 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.
Etymologies
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New Hebrew. māsrāh traditionah.
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Examples
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There are those whose “entire wisdom” consists in masora, the traditional inventory of letters and phonetic markings in Scripture.
Abraham Ibn Ezra Langermann, Tzvi 2006
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In - ter nostra haec Biblia ac Soncinensia insignis extat lectionis varietas ac di - screpantia, ac tanta quidem, ut nemi - nem dubitare sinat ex diversis codici - bus ea fuisse edita, utraque vero a masora ac masoretharum legibus tara saepe tamque insigniter dissident, ut nunquam credere possimus eos codices masorethicos fuisse.
Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 1795
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