Shor

Shor is the Hebrew word for bull or ox. Shor may also refer to:

Anthropology
  • Shor language, one of the Turkic languages
  • Shor people, an indigenous ethnic group of southern Siberia

People with the name

Shor is a Jewish surname, notricon (acronym) shokhet u rav - "ritual slaughterer" and "rabbi".[1] Additionally, it means "ox" in the family named Shor that is descended from Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor. Bekhor Shor means "first-born ox", which is the animal symbolic of Joseph in the biblical blessing found in Deuteronomy 33:17. Some of those with this last name are:

  • Dan Shor, veteran actor, director, writer and teacher with a career spanning 28 years
  • Ephraim Zalman Shor (1551-1633), descended from Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor, also called Tevuot Shor after a book he wrote on ritual slaughtering[2]
  • Ira Shor, composition and rhetoric professor
  • Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor (12th century), French rabbi, Talmudic scholar and poet. He was called Bekhor Shor after a biblical commentary he wrote.
  • Naum Z. Shor (1937-2006), Ukrainian mathematician
  • Peter Shor (b. 1959), American theoretical computer scientist
  • Sol Shor, American screenwriter
  • Toots Shor (1903-1977), proprietor of Toots Shor's Restaurant

Arts, entertainment, and media

Other uses
gollark: Greetings, mortal.
gollark: xmonad WHEN?
gollark: GNOME < LXDE
gollark: Unfortunately, 24% still get through.
gollark: I spread a [REDACTED] metaapioformic agent into the server to make 76% of gnobody messages appear to be merely extra space in the message view.

See also

References
  1. Hinckley, Richard (1963). STAR NAMES Their Lore and Meaning. Dover Publications, 1899. p. 380. ISBN 0-486-21079-0.
  2. Singer, Isidore & Adler, Cyrus (1904). "Leon-Moravia". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk & Wagnalls. p. 201.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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