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English
Etymology
From Hebrew שׁוֹטֵר.
Noun
shoter (plural shoterim)
- (historical, chiefly in the plural) A kind of officer or overseer among the Ancient Israelites.
1853, Enoch Cobb Wines, Commentaries on the laws of the ancient Hebrews, page 494:The most important business of the shoterim was to keep the genealogical registers; to record accurately the marriages, births, and deaths among the people; and, probably, as they kept the rolls of families, to apportion the public burdens and services on the people individually.
Anagrams
- Tosher, hetros, Others, tosher, re-shot, Rothes, reshot, sother, rehost, others, Stoehr, short e, shorte, hoster, throes