Masorah (iou)

Masorah noun. Also Massorah, Masora. E17.
[Hebrew var. of masore bond (Ezekiel 20:37), from asar bind (later interpreted as 'tradition' as if from masar hand down).]
The body of traditional information and comment relating to the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, compiled by Jewish scholars in the 10th cent. and earlier; the collection of critical notes in which this information is preserved.