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shoterim

shoterim is the plural of shoter.

Meaning of shoter

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

Questions about shoterim

What is shoterim the plural of?
Shoterim is the plural of shoter.

Words near shoterim in the dictionary

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

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