Lexical Summary shoter: official, officer Original Word: שֹׁטֵרTransliteration: shoter Phonetic Spelling: (sho-tare') Part of Speech: noun masculine Short Definition: official, officer Meaning: a scribe, an official superintendent, magistrate Strong's Concordance officer, overseer, ruler Active participle of an otherwise unused root probably meaning to write; properly, a scribe, i.e. (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate -- officer, overseer, ruler. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7860. shoter שֹׁטֵר noun masculine official, officer (properly scribe, secretary? or from original meaning as arranger, organizer?); — absolute ׳שׁ Proverbs 6:7, ׳שׁו2 Chronicles 26:11; plural שֹׁטְרִים Deuteronomy 1:15 +, etc.; — apparently subordinate officer, judicial, civil or military (compare DrDeuteronomy 1. 15 GrayNumbers 11:16); organizing people for marching Joshua 1:10; 3:2 (both E), compare Deuteronomy 20:5, 8, 9; appointed over Israel by Egyptian overseers Exodus 5:14, compare 5:6; 5:10; 5:15; 5:19 (all J); elsewhere + זְקֵנִים Numbers 11:16 (E), Deuteronomy 29:9; 31:28; + שֹׁפְטִים 16:18; 1 Chronicles 23:4; 26:29, + ׳ז and ׳שֹׁפ Joshua 8:33 (RD), and ( + רָאשִׁים) 23:2 (RD), 24:1 (E, or RD); ׳שֹׁט as minor judges also Deuteronomy 1:15; ׳שֹׁט אֶתהַֿמֶּלֶךְ הַמְשָֽׁרְתִים 1 Chronicles 27:1, chosen from Levites 2 Chronicles 19:11; 34:13 (+ שׁוֺעֲרִים סוֺפְרִים,); as title of individual 26:11 ("" הַסּוֺפֵר); of ant, וּמשֵׁל שֹׁטֵר קָצִין אֵיןלָֿהּ Proverbs 6:7. |
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