Masoretic (Adjective)
Meaning
Of or relating to the Masorah.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible is considered authoritative by many Jewish scholars.
- Scholars have long been fascinated by the masoretic notes that accompany the Hebrew text of the Torah.
- The masoretic vowel points were added to the Hebrew text relatively late in its transmission history.
- In recent years, masoretic scholars have made use of computational methods to analyze the transmission of the text.
- The publication of the Koren Tanakh in the 1960s provided a widely used edition of the masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible.