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Hebrew שׁוֹטֵר

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shoter (plural shoterim)

  1. (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.

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