designates the body of traditions that are printed in the margins of the Hebrew Bible to guide the reader.

The study of biblical grammar and lexicology.

"Transmission". The Masoretic text is the traditionally correct text of the Hebrew Bible established by the group of scholars known as the Masoretes. Their activity extended from c500-930 C.E. During this period they: examined many biblical manuscripts and decided which of the texts were the most accurate; created a system of vowel annotations or pointing and applied it to the text, which previously used only consonants; and standardized the system of trope symbols and applied it to the text to indicate word and phrase stresses and cantillation.