masorah

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Masorah
    n 1: a vast body of textual criticism of the Hebrew Scriptures
         including notes on features of writing and on the
         occurrence of certain words and on variant sources and
         instructions for pronunciation and other comments that were
         written between AD 600 and 900 by Jewish scribes in the
         margins or at the end of texts [syn: {Masorah}, {Masora}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Masora \Ma*so"ra\, n. [NHeb. m[=a]s[=o]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}.]
   [1913 Webster]

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