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Definition of Masorah

Masorah
Masora Ma*so"ra, n. [NHeb. m[=a]s?r[=a]h tradition.] A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries. [Written also Masorah, Massora, and Massorah.]

Meaning of Masorah from wikipedia

- and accentuation known as the mas'sora. Referring to the Masoretic Text, masorah specifically means the diacritic markings of the text of the Jewish scriptures...
- Look up Masorah in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Masorah or Mesorah (Hebrew: מסורה) refers either to the transmission of Jewish religious tradition...
- Tiberian Masorah. ISBN 0-89130-374-X  Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, §2, §3 "Masorah" in The Jewish Encyclopedia The Role of the Masoretes (PDF) "Masorah" in the...
- the Psalms. H. Kelley, Daniel Stephen Mynatt, Timothy G. Crawford, The Masorah of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia: introduction and annotated glossary...
- 1923, in Berlin – December 19, 2008) was an Israeli linguist, scholar of Masorah and the Hebrew language. Israel Yeivin was born in Berlin. His family immigrated...
- codex which differed widely in places from the text crystallized by the Masorah." "Two things, however, rendered the Septuagint unwelcome in the long run...
- spiritual connections, in addition to explaining texts. (See similar re Masorah – in the sense of "tradition" – at Masoretic Text § Etymology.) The Aggadah...
- preparing the first sections of his magnum opus, the critical study of the Masorah. Beginning in 1867 with the publication of Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonijah's...
- system of cantillation notes has its historical roots in the Tiberian masorah. The cantillation signs are included in Unicode as characters U+0591 through...
- vol. 1 (1960) page 2, reprinted in Sid Z. Leiman, ed., The Canon and Masorah of the Hebrew Bible, an Introductory Reader (NY, KTAV Publishing House...