sher'-if (Aramaic tiphtaye' "judicial," "a lawyer," "a sheriff" (Da 3:2f]): Probably a "lawyer" or "jurist" whose business it was to decide points of law. At best, however, the translation "sheriff" is but a conjecture.
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