H5608B–סֹפֵר–so.pher

Now this is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra, the priest and the scribe, who put into writing the words of the orders of the Lord, and of his rules for Israel:

הַסֹּפֵ֑ר (סֹּפֵ֑ר) so.Fer “scribe”סֹפֵ֞ר so.Fer “[the] scribe of”

And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the boo

הַסֹּפֵ֔ר (סֹּפֵ֔ר) so.Fer “scribe”

And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and

הַסֹּפֵ֗ר (סֹּפֵ֗ר) so.Fer “scribe”

And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping o

הַסֹּפֵ֡ר (סֹּפֵ֡ר) so.Fer “scribe”

And on the second day the heads of families of all the people and the priests and the Levites came together to Ezra the scribe, to give attention to the words of the law.

הַסֹּפֵ֑ר (סֹּפֵ֑ר) so.Fer “scribe”

These were in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the ruler and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.

הַסּוֹפֵֽר׃ (סּוֹפֵֽר) so.Fer “scribe”

And his brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel and Judah, Hanani, with the music-instruments of David, the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was at their head;

הַסּוֹפֵ֖ר (סּוֹפֵ֖ר) so.Fer “scribe”

And I made controllers over the store-houses, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and with them was Hanan, the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah: they were taken to be true men and their business was the distribution

הַסּוֹפֵ֗ר (סּוֹפֵ֗ר) so.Fer “scribe”

My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

סוֹפֵ֬ר so.Fer “a scribe”

And there came out to him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.

הַסֹּפֵ֔ר (סֹּפֵ֔ר) so.Fer “scribe”

Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothing parted as a sign of grief, and gave him an account of what the Rab-shakeh had said.

הַסּוֹפֵ֜ר (סּוֹפֵ֜ר) so.Fer “scribe”

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

הַסּוֹפֵ֗ר (סּוֹפֵ֗ר) so.Fer “scribe”

How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

סֹפְרִֽים׃ so.fe.Rim “scribes”

Then Baruch gave a public reading of the words of Jeremiah from the book, in the house of the Lord, in the room of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher square, as one goes in by the new doorway of the Lord's house, in the hearing of all

הַסֹּפֵ֜ר (סֹּפֵ֜ר) so.Fer “scribe”

Went down to the king's house, to the scribe's room: and all the rulers were seated there, Elishama the scribe and Delaiah, the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all

הַסֹּפֵ֔ר (סֹּפֵ֔ר) so.Fer “scribe”הַסֹּפֵ֡ר (סֹּפֵ֡ר) so.Fer “scribe”

Then they went into the open square to the king; but the book they put away in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they gave the king an account of all the words.

הַסֹּפֵ֑ר (סֹּפֵ֑ר) so.Fer “scribe”

So the king sent Jehudi to get the book, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi gave a reading of it in the hearing of the king and all the rulers who were by the king's side.

הַסֹּפֵ֑ר (סֹּפֵ֑ר) so.Fer “scribe”

And it came about that whenever Jehudi, in his reading, had got through three or four divisions, the king, cutting them with his penknife, put them into the fire, till all the book was burned up in the fire which was burning in the fireplace.

הַסֹּפֵ֔ר (סֹּפֵ֔ר) so.Fer “scribe”

And the king gave orders to Jerahmeel, the king's son, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord kept them safe.

הַסֹּפֵ֔ר (סֹּפֵ֔ר) so.Fer “scribe”

Then Jeremiah took another book, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who put down in it, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book which had been burned in the fire by Jehoiakim, king of Judah: and in addition a number of oth

הַסֹּפֵר֒ (סֹּפֵר֒) so.Fer “scribe”

And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

הַסֹּפֵ֔ר (סֹּפֵ֔ר) so.Fer “scribe”

And now be pleased to give ear, O my lord the king; let my prayer for help come before you, and do not make me go back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, for fear that I may come to my death there.

הַסֹּפֵ֔ר (סֹּפֵ֔ר) so.Fer “scribe”

And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military o

סֹפֵר֙ so.Fer “[the] scribe of”

And six men came from the way of the higher doorway looking to the north, every man with his axe in his hand: and one man among them was clothed in linen, with a writer's inkpot at his side. And they went in and took their places by the brass altar.

הַסֹּפֵ֖ר (סֹּפֵ֖ר) so.Fer “scribe”

And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the winged ones on which it was resting, to the doorstep of the house. And crying out to the man clothed in linen who had the writer's inkpot at his side,

הַסֹּפֵ֖ר (סֹּפֵ֖ר) so.Fer “scribe”