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  1. 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.

Etymologies

  1. New Hebrew. māsrāh traditionah. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “There are those whose “entire wisdom” consists in masora, the traditional inventory of letters and phonetic markings in Scripture.”

    Abraham Ibn Ezra

  • “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.”

    Internet Archive: Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV

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