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Masorete, Massorete|ˈmæsəriːt|
Forms: 6 Massoreth, Mazaroth, 7 Masoreth, Massorat, (9 erron. Mazorete), 7–9 Massoret, 9 Masoret, 8– Massorete, Masorete.
[Originally a misapplication of Masoreth, better form of Masorah. So F. Massoretz pl. (Rabelais); the later F. Massorètes, G. Mas(s)oret(h)en, mod.L. Mas(s)orētæ, Eng. Mas(s)oretes, are due to association of the ending with that of words of Gr. origin like exegete, athlete.
The apparently abnormal formation led to the invention of Masorite as a more correct substitute, but the older word is still the more frequently used.]
One of the Jewish scholars who contributed to the formation of the Masorah.
1587Golding De Mornay xxx. 486 In stead of Caru..the Jewes will needes reade Ca ari..: their Massoreths (who haue made a Register of all the Letters of the Scriptures) doe witness that in al good Copies it is written Caru. Ibid., The Jewes..are warned by their Mazaroths, that that sence is vnperfect. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 282 Which the Masoreths and Rabbinicall Scholiasts not well attending, have often us'd to blurre the margent with Keri instead of Ketiv. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xiv. 123 The Cabalists and Massorats, Interpreters of the Sacred Scriptures. 1778Lowth Transl. Isaiah xxxviii. 13 note, The Masoretes divide the sentence, as I have done. 1866J. G. Murphy Comm., Exod. xxiii. 13 It is remarkable that the Masoretes have no division whatever at this point of the text. 1875Farrar in Expositor I. 106 The long labours of the Jewish Masorets. 1882Athenæum 7 Oct. 456/3 These causes [of errors in Hebrew MSS.] are..admitted..by some even of the Massorets. 1886C. A. Briggs Messianic Prophecy x. 301 note, An example of introverted parallelism, which has escaped the notice of the Massoretes. |