שֹׁטֵר noun masculine official, officer (properly scribe, secretary? or from original meaning as arranger, organizer?); — absolute ׳שׁ [Prov 6:7], ׳שׁו [2Chr 26:11] plural שֹׁטְרִים [Deut 1:15] +, etc.; — apparently subordinate officer, judicial, civil or military (compare Dr[Deut 1]. 15 Gray[Num 11:16]); organizing people for marching [Josh 1:10]; [Josh 3:2] (both E), compare [Deut 20:5]; [Deut 20:8]; [Deut 20:9] appointed over Israel by Egyptian overseers [Exod 5:14], compare v[Exod 5:6] v[Exod 5:10] v[Exod 5:15] v[Exod 5:19] (all J); elsewhere + זְקֵנִים [Num 11:16] (E), [Deut 29:9]; [Deut 31:28] + שֹׁפְטִים [Deut 16:18]; [1Chr 23:4]; [1Chr 26:29], + ׳ז and ׳שֹׁפ [Josh 8:33] (RD), and ( + רָאשִׁים) [Josh 23:2] (RD), [Josh 24:1] (E, or RD); ׳שֹׁט as minor judges also [Deut 1:15] הַמְשָֽׁרְתִים אֶתהַֿמֶּלֶךְ ׳שֹׁט [1Chr 27:1], chosen from Levites [2Chr 19:11]; [2Chr 34:13] (+ סוֺפְרִים, שׁוֺעֲרִים); as title of individual [2Chr 26:11] (|| הַסּוֺפֵר); of ant, אֵיןלָֿהּ קָצִין שֹׁטֵר וּמשֵׁל [Prov 6:7].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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