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shoter

shoter noun: a kind of officer or overseer among the Ancient Israelites.

Noun

shoter (plural shoterim)

  1. (historical, in plural) A kind of officer or overseer among the Ancient Israelites.
    • The most important business of the shoterim was to keep the genealogical registers; to record accurately the marriages, births, and deaths among the people; and, probably, as they kept the rolls of families, to apportion the public burdens and services on the people individually.1853, Enoch Cobb Wines, Commentaries on the laws of the ancient Hebrews, page 494

Forms of shoter

pluralshoterim

Origin of shoter

From Hebrew שׁוֹטֵר.

Questions about shoter

What does shoter mean?
Shoter means a kind of officer or overseer among the Ancient Israelites.
What part of speech is shoter?
Shoter is a noun.
What is the plural of shoter?
The plural of shoter is shoterim.

Words near shoter in the dictionary

  1. shotcretes
  2. shotcreting
  3. shote
  4. shotel
  5. shotels
  6. shoter
  7. shoterim
  8. shotes
  9. shotfirer
  10. shotfirers
  11. shotfiring

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