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• s[=o]'fe-rim, n.pl. the scribes, the expounders of the Jewish oral law.--adj. S[=O]'PHERIC. [Heb.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

• The scribes or teachers of Jewish law.

1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
By Sir Augustus Henry