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# שֹׁטֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7860

**official** — used 25 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

official [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7860/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֹׁטֵר: n.m. official, officer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7860/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. official, officer (proposes scribe, secretary? or from original meaning as arranger, organizer?);—abs. שׁ׳ Pr 6:7, שׁו׳ 2 Ch 26:11; pl. שֹׁטְרִים Dt 1:15 +, etc.;—appar. subordinate officer, judicial, civil or military (cf. Dr Dt 1:15 Gray Nu 11:16): organizing people for marching Jos 1:10; 3:2 (both E), cf. Dt 20:5, 8, 9; appointed over Isr. by Egyptian overseers Ex 5:14, cf. v 6, 10, 15, 19 (all J); elsewhere + זְקֵנִים Nu 11:16 (E), Dt 29:9; 31:28; + שׁ פְטִים 16:18 1 Ch 23:4; 26:29, + ז׳ et שֹׁפ׳ Jos 8:33 (RD), and (+ רָאשִׁים) 23:2 (RD), 24:1 (E, or RD); שֹׁט׳ as minor judges also Dt 1:15; שֹׁט׳ הַמְשָֽׁרְתִים אֶת־הַמֶּלֶךְ 1 Ch 27:1, chosen from Levites 2 Ch 19:11; 34:13 (+ סוֹפְרִים, שׁוֹעֲרִים); as title of individ. 26:11 (‖ הַסּוֹפֵר); of ant, אֵין־לָהּ קָצִין שֹׁטֵר וּמֹשֵׁל Pr 6:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: officials (14); the foremen (3); \[will be\] officials (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.6.7/#tree)

אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֵֽין־לָ֥הּ קָצִ֗ין שֹׁטֵ֥ר וּמֹשֵֽׁל׃

*Word for word:* which there.\[is\].not for it commander officer and ruler

*JPS 1917:* Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

[Joshua 1:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.1.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.1.10/#tree)

וַיְצַ֣ו יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ אֶת־שֹׁטְרֵ֥י הָעָ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.commanded Joshua (et) the.officers of the.people (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7860.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7860/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).