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Hassophereth

The ancestor of a family of temple assistants who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel after the exile in Babylon (Ezra 2:55). Hassophereth may be the same person called Sophereth in Nehemiah 7:57.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)The classic article on this subject

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