Jehudah (Arje-Loeb) Ben-Zebi (Hirsh)

Jehudah (Arje-Loeb) Ben-Zebi (Hirsh)

Jehudah (Arje-Loeb) Ben-Zebi (Hirsh),

a Jewish writer of some note, was born at Krotoschin (Polish Prussia) about 1680. He afterwards became rabbi at Carpentras and Avignon. His works are:

(1) A Hebrew Lexicon, entitled אָהַלֵי יְהוּדָה ( The Tents Of Judah ) (Jesnitz, 1719, 4to), consisting of two parts; the first part, שֵׁם עוֹלָם ( The Everlasting Name ), confines itself mainly to proper names; the second part, יָד ושֵׁם ( Place And Name ), supplies the words omitted in the first part. This work partakes of the nature of a concordance as well as of a lexicon, inasmuch as it gives the places in Scripture in which every word is to be found: —

(2) A Hebrew Grammar, called חֵלֶק יֵהוּדָה ( The Portion Of Judah ) ; of this work, the introduction only, יסוד לשון הקודש ( The Foundation Of The Sacred Language ), was ever published (Wilmersdorf, 1721, 4to); it contains fifteen canons and paradigms, with a German translation: — and

(3) a Concordance, entitled גֶּזִע יְהוּדָה ( The Stem Of Judah ),which only goes as far as the root צנ Š (Offenbach, 1732, 4to). — Kitto, Biblic. Cyclop. s.v.; Steinschneider, Libri Hebroei In Biblioth. Bodleiana , col. 1378; Bibliogr. Handb. f. Hebr. Sprachkunde (Leipzig, 1859), p. 70; F Ü rst, Biblioth. Jud. 1, 145 sq.