Menachem Ben-Salomo
Menachem Ben-Salomo
of France, a rabbi who lived in the 12th century, is the author of , a dictionary of the Hebrew language, written about 1143. Specimens of this lexicon were published by Dukes in (Esslingen, 1846). He also wrote a commentary on the Pentateuch, entitled , a specimen of which, under the title , was published at Hamburg in 1784 (in a Latin translation by Delitzsch, in his Jeshurun sive Isagoge [Grimmna. 1838], pages 184-188). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:353; De’ Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), page 218; Zunz, Zur Geschichte und Literatur, page 71 sq., 108. (B.P.)