shoter

plural shoterim

1. historicalin pluralA kind of officer or overseer among the Ancient Israelites.

   The most important business of the shoterim was to keep the genealogical registers; to record accurately the marriages, births, and deaths among the people; and, probably, as they kept the rolls of families, to apportion the public burdens and services on the people individually.

   1853, Enoch Cobb Wines, Commentaries on the laws of the ancient Hebrews, page 494