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shetar

shetar is the alternative form of starr.

Meaning of starr

Noun

starr (plural starrs or starra)

  1. (historical) A receipt given by Jews on payment of debt.
    • It is well known that, before the banishment of the Jews under Edward I., their contracts and obligations were denominated in our ancient records starra, or starrs, from a corruption of the Hebrew word shetar, a covenant.1846, Moses Margoliouth, The Jews in Great Britain

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Forms of shetar

pluralshetars

Questions about shetar

What is shetar the alternative form of?
Shetar is the alternative form of starr.

Words near shetar in the dictionary

  1. shet
  2. shetadlan
  3. shetadlanim
  4. shetadlanut
  5. shetani
  6. shetar
  7. shetars
  8. Shete
  9. Shetes
  10. sheth
  11. sheths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shetar (page history and authors); starr (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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