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{{CTD article
|term=Masoretic Points
|person=No
|origin={{tip|Heb}}
|variations=Vowels
|description=Or, as the system is now called, ''Masóra ''from ''Massoreh ''or ''Massoreth, ''“tradition”, and ''Mâsar'', to “hand down”. The Rabbins who busied themselves with the ''Masorah, ''hence called Masorites, were also the inventors of the Masoretic points, which are supposed to give the vowelless words of the Scriptures their true pronunciation, by the addition of points representing vowels to the consonants. This was the invention of the learned and cunning Rabbins of the School of Tiberias (in the ninth century of our era), who, by doing so, have put an entirely new construction on the chief words and names in the Books of Moses, and made thereby confusion still more confounded. The truth is, that this scheme has only added additional blinds to those already existing in the ''Pentateuch ''and other works {{ctd-source|TG}}.
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|term=Masoretic Points
|person=No
|origin={{tip|Heb}}
|variations=Vowels
|description=Or, as the system is now called, ''Masóra ''from ''Massoreh ''or ''Massoreth, ''“tradition”, and ''Mâsar'', to “hand down”. The Rabbins who busied themselves with the ''Masorah, ''hence called Masorites, were also the inventors of the Masoretic points, which are supposed to give the vowelless words of the Scriptures their true pronunciation, by the addition of points representing vowels to the consonants. This was the invention of the learned and cunning Rabbins of the School of Tiberias (in the ninth century of our era), who, by doing so, have put an entirely new construction on the chief words and names in the Books of Moses, and made thereby confusion still more confounded. The truth is, that this scheme has only added additional blinds to those already existing in the ''Pentateuch ''and other works {{ctd-source|TG}}.
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