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title: שֹׁטֵר — official · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֹׁטֵר (7860), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 25 times: official. BDB 1906: n.m. official, officer. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֹׁטֵר

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«שֹׁטֵר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **official** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 25 times · **Key:** 7860 · **BDB:** שֹׁטֵר

### Glosses

officials (14); the.foremen (3); \[will.be\].officials (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֹׁטֵר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7860/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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,

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

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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:

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