The Collaborative International Dictionary
Masoretic \Mas`o*ret"ic\, Masoretical \Mas`o*ret"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. massor['e]tique.] Of or relating to the Masora, or to its authors.
Masoretic points and accents, the vowel points and accents of the Hebrew text of the Bible, of which the first mention is in the Masora. See vowel point.
Usage examples of "masoretic".
Enthusiastic comparing of these Dead Sea Scrolls with the Masoretic text resulted in discovering remarkable accuracy of the transmission process.
A comparison of Isaiah 53 shows that only seventeen letters differ from the Masoretic text.
After a general introduction, however, the writing seemed to become more technical and heavily footnoted, sprinkled with Roman numeral references, foreign phrases, capitalized abbreviations, and words like Masoretic and Septuagintal.
And they attribute its loss to the illegality of applying the Masoretic points to so sacred a Name, by which a knowledge of the proper vowels is forgotten.
This is why the canonical scriptures became known as the Masoretic Text.
The Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran, discovered after the Second World War, are a large and very varied group, which in itself suggests that there was a great range of scriptures available, some of them very different from the Masoretic Text.