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sopher

sopher is the alternative form of sofer.

Meaning of sofer

Noun

sofer (plural sofers or soferim or sofrim)

  1. A Jewish scribe who can transcribe Torah scrolls and other religious writings.
    • Twice in seven years it must be examined by a sofer (a religious scribe) to assure its legitimacy.1988 September 2, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “A Special Connection With God”, in Chicago Reader

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Proper noun capitalized: Sopher

Sopher (plural Sophers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of sopher

Noun
pluralsophers
pluralsopherim
Proper noun
pluralSophers

Questions about sopher

What does sopher mean?
Sopher means a surname.
What is sopher the alternative form of?
Sopher is the alternative form of sofer.
What part of speech is sopher?
Sopher is a proper noun.

Words near sopher in the dictionary

  1. sopha
  2. sophas
  3. Sophene
  4. Sophenian
  5. Sophenians
  6. sopher
  7. sopheric
  8. sopherim
  9. sophers
  10. sophi
  11. Sophia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sopher (page history and authors); Sopher (page history and authors); sofer (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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