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The term tikkun Soferim ( תקון סופרים ) has been understood by different scholars in various ways.

Some regard it as a correction of Biblical language authorized by the Soferim for homiletical purposes.

Others take it to mean a mental change made by the original writers or redactors of Scripture ; i. e. the latter shrank from putting in writing a thought which some of the readers might expect them to express.