- Original: שׁטר - Transliteration: Shoter - Phonetic: sho-tare' - Definition: 1. (Qal) official, officer - Origin: act part of an otherwise unused root probably meaning to write - TWOT entry: TWOT - 2374a - Part(s) of speech: Masculine - Strong's: Active participle of an otherwise unused root probably meaning to write; properly a scribe that is (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate: - officer overseer ruler. Total KJV Occurrences: 25 • officers, 23 Exodus 5:6; Exodus 5:10; Exodus 5:14; Exodus 5:15; Exodus 5:19; Numbers 11:16; Deuteronomy 1:15; Deuteronomy 16:18; Deuteronomy 20:5; Deuteronomy 20:8; Deuteronomy 20:9; Deuteronomy 29:10; Deuteronomy 31:28; Joshua 1:10; Joshua 3:2; Joshua 8:33; Joshua 23:2; Joshua 24:1; 1 Chronicles 23:4; 1 Chronicles 26:29; 1 Chronicles 27:1; 2 Chronicles 19:11; 2 Chronicles 34:13 • overseer, 1 Proverbs 6:7 • ruler, 1 2 Chronicles 26:11