scribes in English

noun
1
a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
Jean was an illuminator who established a thriving workshop in Bourges with the help of André Rousseau, a scribe , manuscript agent, and the librarian of the university.
2
an ancient Jewish record-keeper or, later, a professional theologian and jurist.
verb
1
write.
he scribed a note that he passed to Dan
2
mark with a scriber.
Small strange drawings were scribbled and scribed into the wet surfaces, simple childish cave illustration that seemed so alien to all that had preceded it.

Use "scribes" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "scribes" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "scribes", or refer to the context using the word "scribes" in the English Dictionary.

1. Scribes were constantly copying works of literature.

2. Amanuenses, readers, and scribes in the classroom

3. Most often, the scribes appear as Jesus’ religious opponents.

4. Tells us suspect scribes at aero-dynamic front.

5. Through the centuries, scribes meticulously copied these books.

6. (Ezra 2:55; Nehemiah 7:57) They thus may have been a staff of scribes or copyists, possibly temple/ administrative scribes.

7. Mark 2:16 speaks of “the scribes of the Pharisees.”

8. Egyptian scribes produced written material before the time of Moses

9. These nameless scribes copied the Sacred Book with meticulous and loving care.”

10. In addition to legal documents, scribes were responsible for temple records.

11. (b) How did Jesus’ teaching differ from that of the scribes?

12. “The chief priests and the scribes kept standing up and vehemently accusing [Jesus].”

13. What advice does Jesus give his listeners concerning the scribes and the Pharisees?

14. There is, therefore, a staff of subaltern officials and scribes of all sorts.

15. Following the tradition of the Jewish scribes, early Christians made copies of those books.

16. Synonyms for Amanuenses include scriveners, copyists, penmen, scribes, calligraphers, writers, secretaries, transcribers, recorders and copiers

17. Synonyms for Annalists include chroniclers, historians, archivists, recorders, chronologists, historiographers, chronologers, chronographers, scribes and diarists

18. Question: "Who were the scribes that often Argued with Jesus?" Answer: Scribes in ancient Israel were learned men whose business was to study the Law, transcribe it, and write commentaries on it

19. For in fact, the lying* stylus*+ of the scribes* has been used only for falsehood.

20. + 10 However, the chief priests and the scribes kept standing up and vehemently accusing him.

21. Beautiful illuminated manuscripts reflect the patience and artistry of the scribes who copied them by hand.

22. Well, the scribes and the Pharisees ‘adroitly set aside God’s commandment’ and judged by their own standards.

23. The chief priests, the scribes, and the principal men cannot stand Jesus’ actions and public teaching.

24. They may have served as scribes or copyists at the temple or in some administrative capacity.

25. The kit includes wafer mat, scribes for marking and scribing, pliers for Cleaving, rulers and instructions

26. Below is the complete list of answers we found in our database for Amanuenses: SCRIBES; Possibly …

27. The last share was allotted to royal scribes for the writing of codices and other records.

28. These men, known as scribes, were adroit at finding loopholes for people intent on circumventing the Law.

29. 13 In ancient times, only certain privileged classes, such as the scribes in Mesopotamia and Egypt, were literate.

30. Christ Jesus censured the scribes and Pharisees for ‘broadening the scripture-containing cases that they wore as safeguards.’

31. “Nevertheless, the scribes and others who observed the translation left numerous accounts that give insight into the process.

32. Nevertheless, the scribes and others who observed the translation left numerous accounts that give insight into the process.

33. (“were astounded,” “his way of teaching,” “not as their scribes” study notes on Mt 7:28, 29, nwtsty)

34. + 2 And both the Pharisees and the scribes kept muttering: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

35. During the Middle Ages, a group of Jewish scribes known as the Masoretes carried on that tradition.

36. Rather, we read: “He was teaching them as a person having authority, and not as their scribes.” —Matthew 7:29.

37. * How might the Savior’s response have helped the scribes and Pharisees understand why He associated with publicans and sinners?

38. The scribes and Pharisees scrupulously insisted on the letter of the law, but they ignored fundamental principles that reflected love and compassion.

39. See the article “Ancient Scribes and the Word of God” in the March 15, 2007, issue of The Watchtower, pages 18-20.

40. Once the Library’s scribes had duplicated the texts, they kept the originals and sent the copies back to the ships.

41. A rough sense of scale, however, can be seen in a chronological ledger of marriages and sealings kept by Church scribes.

42. The scribes and the Pharisees were arrogant and harsh, haughtily demanding exalting titles and sneeringly dismissing the crowds as “accursed people.”

43. After all, the temple authorities —the priests, the scribes, and others— were behind the scandalous profit-making business taking place there.

44. By alluding to this practice, Jesus showed that the scribes and the Pharisees appeared righteous outwardly but were “full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”

45. The Breakbeat Poets are the scribes recording and remixing a fuller spectrum of experience of what it means to be alive in this moment

46. The Inca scribes (known as armantus) used the quipu (knotted ropes) to record and store information about the immense holdings of the vast Inca empire.

47. To be literate was no longer the identifying and exclusive characteristic of a class of professional scribes and priests, versed in the abstruse cuneiform and hieroglyphic scripts.”

48. (Luke 22:25, 26) In fact, Jesus warned: “Beware of the scribes who want to walk around in robes and want greetings in the marketplaces.” —Mark 12:38.

49. The Correctors were figures in a landscape that is now disappearing: one in which authors expected their printers—or their scribes—to improve the work they handed in

50. With the Alexandrine Codex, however, the scribes seemed concerned with bringing together readings from different families so as to provide as good a text as possible.