shoter

Hebrew שׁוֹטֵר‎

shoter (plural shoterim)

1. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A kind of officer or overseer among the Ancient Israelites.
   • 1853, Enoch Cobb Wines, Commentaries on the laws of the ancient Hebrews (page 494)

     The most important business of the shoterim was to keep the genealogical registers; to record accurately the marriages, births, and deaths among the people; and, probably, as they kept the rolls of families, to apportion the public burdens and services on the people individually.

• Rothes, Stoehr, hetros, hoster, others, re-shot, rehost, reshot, short e, shorte, throes, tosher