Strong's H7860

שֹׁטֵר

Transliteration

shôṭêr

Pronunciation

sho-tare'

Definition

properly, a scribe, i.e. (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate

KJV usage

officer, overseer, ruler.

Derivation

active participle of an otherwise unused root probably meaning to write;

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Hebrew dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.