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Definition of Masoretes

Masorete
Masoret Mas"o*ret, n. A Masorite. [Written also Masorete, and Massorete.]

Meaning of Masoretes from wikipedia

- The Masoretes (Hebrew: בַּעֲלֵי הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized: Baʿălēy Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were groups of Jewish scribe-scholars who...
- notes were added because the Masoretes recognized the possibility of human error in copying the Hebrew Bible. The Masoretes were not working with the original...
- (God)—were inserted by the Masoretes to indicate that these substitutes were to be used. When יהוה precedes or follows Adonai, the Masoretes placed the vowel points...
- most recently the 10th-century medieval Masoretic Text compiled by the Masoretes, currently used in Rabbinic Judaism. The terms "Hebrew Bible" or "Hebrew...
- with spaces between words to aid reading. By the eighth century CE, the Masoretes added vowel signs. Levites or scribes maintained the texts, and some texts...
- of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Babylon; defunct Palestinian vocalization, a system of niqqud devised by the Masoretes of Jerusalem; defunct Tiberian...
- Mesopotamia, and Lower Mesopotamia ("Babylonia"). In the time of the Masoretes (8th-10th centuries), there were three distinct notations for denoting...
- simply based on early source texts differing from those later used by the Masoretes in their work. The Septuagint was originally used by ****enized Jews whose...
- only one still used to a significant degree today, was created by the Masoretes of Tiberias in the second half of the first millennium in the Land of...
- romanized: hanniqquḏ haṭṭəḇeryāni) is a system of diacritics (niqqud) devised by the Masoretes of Tiberias to add to the consonantal text of the Hebrew Bible to produce...