shoter · supervisor

What it means

shoter (שֹׁטֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “supervisor”.

An official who keeps order and oversees others; in Egypt, the Israelite in charge of his own people's work who answered to the taskmasters (Exodus 5:14); in Israel, officials beside the judges and the elders (Deuteronomy 16:18).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One in charge of overseeing work or order.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• supervisors ×23
• supervisor ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×5
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×7
• Joshua×5
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Proverbs×1

• Exodus 5:6

  That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their supervisors, saying,

• Exodus 5:10

  So the taskmasters of the people and their supervisors went out and said to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh: ‘I am not giving you straw.

• Exodus 5:14

  And the supervisors of the sons of Israel, whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had set over them, were beaten, being told, “Why have you not completed your quota of making bricks as before, both yesterday and today?”

• Exodus 5:15

  Then the supervisors of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you treat your servants this way?

• Exodus 5:19

  The supervisors of the sons of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You shall not reduce any of your bricks, each day’s task on its day.”

• Numbers 11:16

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and their supervisors; and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

• Deuteronomy 1:15

  So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and known men, and set them as heads over you, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens, and supervisors for your tribes.

• Deuteronomy 16:18

  Judges and supervisors you shall appoint for yourself in all your gates that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

• Deuteronomy 20:5

  And the supervisors shall speak to the people, saying, “Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, so that he does not die in the war and another man dedicate it.

• Deuteronomy 20:8

  And the supervisors shall speak further to the people and say, “Who is the man who is afraid and soft of heart? Let him go and return to his house, so that the heart of his brothers does not melt like his heart.”

• Deuteronomy 20:9

  And when the supervisors have finished speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders of armies at the head of the people.

• Deuteronomy 29:10

  You are standing today, all of you, before YHWH your Elohim: your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your supervisors, every man of Israel,

• Deuteronomy 31:28

  Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your supervisors, so that I may speak in their ears these words and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

• Joshua 1:10

  Then Joshua commanded the supervisors of the people, saying,

• Joshua 3:2

  And it came about, at the end of three days, that the supervisors passed through the middle of the camp

• Joshua 8:33

  And all Israel, with its elders and supervisors and its judges, were standing on this side and on that side of the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of YHWH, the resident alien as well as the native, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of YHWH had commanded, to bless the people of Israel at the first.

• Joshua 23:2

  that Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders, its heads, its judges, and its supervisors, and said to them, “I am old, advanced in days.

• Joshua 24:1

  And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders of Israel, its heads, its judges, and its supervisors; and they presented themselves before Elohim.

• 1 Chronicles 23:4

  Of these, twenty-four thousand were to direct the work of the house of YHWH, and six thousand were supervisors and judges,

• 1 Chronicles 26:29

  Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outside work over Israel, as supervisors and judges.

• 1 Chronicles 27:1

  The sons of Israel according to their number, the heads of the fathers’ houses and the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and their supervisors, who ministered to the king in every matter of the divisions that came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year: each division was twenty-four thousand.

• 2 Chronicles 19:11

  And look, Amariah the head priest is over you in every matter of YHWH, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the leader of the house of Judah, in every matter of the king; and the Levites will be supervisors before you. Be strong and do it, and may YHWH be with the good.”

• 2 Chronicles 26:11

  Uzziah had a force that made war, going out to the army by bands, according to the number of their count, by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the supervisor, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the commanders of the king.

• 2 Chronicles 34:13

  were over the carriers and were directing all who did work in every service; and of the Levites there were scribes, supervisors, and gatekeepers.

• Proverbs 6:7

  which, having no chief, supervisor, or ruler,