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meshorerim

meshorerim is the plural of meshorer.

Meaning of meshorer

Noun

meshorer (plural meshorerim)

  1. (Judaism, historical) A choirboy or subservient singer to a cantor.
    • One of the outstanding Synagogue singers toward the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century was Israel Lovy- born in Schottland near Danzig (1773). His parents came from Poland. While he was still in his childhood, his parents settled in Glogow, where he became meshorer to...1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 226

Questions about meshorerim

What is meshorerim the plural of?
Meshorerim is the plural of meshorer.

Words near meshorerim in the dictionary

  1. meshlet
  2. meshlets
  3. meshlike
  4. meshness
  5. meshorer
  6. meshorerim
  7. meshrabiyeh
  8. meshrep
  9. meshreps
  10. meshuga
  11. meshugaas

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