sabora

[ suh-bawr-uh, -bohr-uh ]

noun

, (often initial capital letter)

, plural sa·bo·ra·im [sah-baw-, rah, -im, -boh-].

1. one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in the rabbinical academies of Babylonia during the 6th century a.d., whose editing of the work of the Babylonian amoraim constituted the final stage in the preparation of the Babylonian Gemara.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sabora¹

< Aramaic sābhōrā scholar, thinker, derivative of səbhār to think