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Meaning of Masorah in English
Pronunciation
/məˈsɔrə/
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Noun
Masorah
Etymology
from Hebrew māsōrāh based on 'āsar‘to bind’, later interpreted in the sense ‘tradition’ (as if from māsar‘hand down’)
Definitions
1.
a vast body of textual criticism of the Hebrew Scriptures including notes on features of writing and on the occurrence of certain words and on variant sources and instructions for pronunciation and other comments that were written between AD 600 and 900 b