שֹׁטֵר
shôṭêr · sho-tare'
properly, a scribe, i.e. (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate
Lexicon
Derivation: 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
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: officer, overseer, ruler.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to surround and contain › the head, the highest
To consume, to destroy that works to surround and contain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֹׁטֵר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
25 occurrences · 25 OT · 0 NT · 21 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and officers5 · 20%
- and the officers4 · 16%
- and their officers3 · 12%
- and your officers2 · 8%
- and for their officers2 · 8%
- then the officers1 · 4%
- and it shall be, when the officers1 · 4%
- the officers1 · 4%
- that the officers1 · 4%
- were officers1 · 4%
- for officers1 · 4%
- shall be officers1 · 4%
- the ruler1 · 4%
- overseer1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.