Mesorah
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Pronunciations

Mesorah (meh-SOR-uh) listen

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Definitions

  • n. Tradition.

  • n. The marginal notes on the Hebrew Bible, written in the 8th-9th centuries CE by rabbis of the school of Tiberias.

Example Sentences

  • "DovBear is committed to the idea that our mesorah overflows with competing and contradictory ideas." (source)

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew

Etymology

  • מסורה

      • Who Uses This

      • Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education

      Regions

      • North America
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

      Dictionaries

      • The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
      • Yinglish: A Lexicon of Judeo-English by Aliza Bulow

      Alternative Spellings

      Mesora, Masora, Masorah

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