a kind of commentary on the Bible that was common in the community that wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls

Hebrew for "interpretation" or "commentary," a genre of literature in which a contemporary interpreter provides commentary on every verse of a given biblical book, applying the ancient prophecies to his/her own time.

Pesher is a Hebrew word meaning "interpretation" in the sense of "solution". It became known from one group of texts, numbering some hundreds, among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The pesharim (plural of Pesher) take a book of the Hebrew Bible, often from the prophets, such as Habakkuk, Nahum, or from the Psalms, quote it phrase by phrase, and after each quotation insert an interpretation, preceded by "its Pesher is".