To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
One whose occupation involved reading and writing.
(soh-fer / soh-fe-REEM) n. Scribe(s); Writer(s). Soferim is a general designation for scholars and copyists in both Talmudic and later literature; a "scholastic" or learned researcher whose vocation was the study and teaching of the tradition. In early times the Sofer was the scholar, but later on (by the 1st century) he was primarily a functionary and teacher of children. Soferim is also a tractate from Talmud that explains the halakhah for writing holy books.
a monk in a monastic Scriptorium who physically wrote text in a manuscript and was sometimes responsible for illumination and rubrication. Depending on time and place, distinctions in class varied as librarii, or apprentices, sometimes trained under the tutelage of antiquarii or senior scribes. Under this arrangement, the bibliothecarius, or librarian, might assume administrative duties.
In Latin, scriba means keeper of accounts or secretary. A scribe is a professional copyist of manuscripts and documents.
A person who writes documents. Clerks, copyists and learned men who held positions in the bureaucracy were scribes.
someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
a gifted man devoted to the study, writing and teaching of the Scriptures
an educated person who is employed to take dictation, record laws and notes, or to copy books and other information
a person who writes down, or otherwise records, the test-taker's responses
a person who writes or types for you because you are unable to write because of a disability
a "teacher of Scripture", so what he goes into his treasury for are teachings - teachings both "old and new"
A qualified and reliable calligrapher trained in the laws of writing scrolls of Torah, Tefilin and Mezuzot, as a religious observance, not merely as a profession.
Assistant at a cat show who writes up cat prize cards and certificates
A copyist who reproduced the Scriptures by hand. In the early Christian congregation era, many copies were probably done privately. In later centuries (beginning with Constantine), copies were often made in scriptoriums, where the text was read phrase-by-phrase while a group of scribes (often educated slaves) copied as they listened.
Person who copies manuscripts by hand and prepared handwritten documents
A person who writes from dictation or sign language interpretation.
a person who transcribes documents or undertakes dictation by hand
To write, trace, or mark by making a line or lines with a pointed instrument.
someone who could read and write; a highly respected title in ancient Egyptian times
One who copies Godâ€(tm)s Torah (Hebrew sofer; Greek grammateus; Latin scriba). They were often respected as teachers and authorities on Godâ€(tm)s Torah.
A copyist of official manuscripts (notably the Hebrew Bible); an archivist or keeper of records; a member of a professional class of secretaries who transcribed legal documents and who were experts in the study of the law (or Torah). Ezra was a skilled scribe (Ezra 7:6). Jesus commended the profession itself (Matthew 13:52) but often took exception to the way the scribes used their office and influence, frequently misinterpreting the Scriptures.
A scribe is one who copies, studies, and teaches God's law.
someone who writes and keeps record. In ancient Egypt, scribes collected taxes. Only men could be scribes.
literally, one who writes. Scibes were the record keepers of Babylonian society.
someone whose job is to write things by hand. In the Middle Ages very few people could write. Those who could were often monks who made copies of the bible or wrote important letters for kings, archbishops and earls. There were no printing machines, so any writing had to always be done by hand.
A person who writes the decorative scrolls used to commemorate SCA awards. This term can apply to both calligraphers and illuminators.
(sometimes called an amanuensis, the Greek term for "scribe") A person trained in literacy who copied letters and books, and sometimes trained in the legal tradition; Baruch was Jeremiah's scribe; Ezra was a Jewish-Persian scribe.
A person who copied books by hand before the invention of printing.
"A writer; one whose business is writing. In various specific or limited applications; Used as the official designation of various public functionaries performing secretarial duties. a. One who writes at another's dictation; an amanuensis. Obs. A copyist, transcriber of manuscripts; now esp. the writer of a particular MS. copy of a classical or mediæval work." (From the OED.n1.1, 3-5) Glossary Glossary (History of Reading)