LYGLOTTS.--Thurneissius, Berolini, 1585, fol.: Thorndike,
London, 1635, fol.: Schindler, Pentaglotton, Frankf, ad M. 1653, fol.:
Hottinger, Heptaglotton, ib. 1661, fol.: Castellus, London, 1669, fol.
2 vols. (Hebrew, Chaldaic, Syriac, Samaritan, Aethiopic and Arabic in
one alphabet; Persian separately. It occupied him for seventeen years,
during which he worked sixteen to eighteen hours a day): Otho, Frankf.
a. M. 1702, 4to (the same languages with Rabbinical).

Hebrew.--About 875, Zemah, head of the school of Pumbeditha, wrote a
Talmudical dictionary of words and things, arranged in alphabetical
order, which is lost. About 880, Jehudah ben 'Alan, of Tiberias, and
Jehudah ibn Koreish, of Tahurt, in Morocco wrote Hebrew dictionaries.
Saadia ben Joseph (born 892, died 942), of Fayum, in Upper Egypt,
wrote [Hebrew: Kefer Igaron], probably a Hebrew-Arabic dictionary.
Menahem ben Jacob Ibn Sar[=u]q (born 910, died about 970), of Tortosa
and Cordova, wrote a copious Hebrew dictionary, first printed by
Herschell F. Filipowski, Edinburgh, 1855, 8vo, from five MSS. David
ben Abraham, of F[=a]s, wrote, in Arabic, a large Hebrew dictionary,
the MS. of which, a quarto of 313 leaves on cotton paper, was found
about 1830 by A. Firkowitz, of Eupatoria, in the cellar of a Qaraite
synagogue in Jerusalem. The age of this work cannot be ascertained.
About 1050, Ali ben Suleiman wrote a dictionary in Arabic, on the plan
of that of David ben Abraham. The MS. of 429 leaves belongs to
Firkowitz. Haja ben Sherira, the famous teacher of the Academy of
Pumbeditha, wrote a Hebrew dictionary in Arabic, called _al H[=a]vi_
(The Gathering), arranged alphabetically in the order of the last
radical letter. This dictionary is lost, as well as that of the
Spaniard Isaac ben Saul, of Lucena. Iona ibn Ganah, of Cordova, born
about 985, wrote a Hebrew dictionary in Arabic called _Kit[=a]b al
Azul_ (Book of Roots). This, as well as a Hebrew translation by Samuel
ibn Tab[=o]n, is extant in MS., and was used by Gesenius in his
_Thesaurus_. Rabbi David ben Joseph Kimhi died soon after 1232. His
lexicon of roots, called [Hebrew: Shorashim], was printed at Naples
1490, fol.; Constantinople, 1513, fol.; Naples, 1491, 8vo; Venice,
1552; Berolini, 1838, 4to. _Tishbi_ (The Tishbite), by Elijah ben
Asher, the Levite, so called because it contained 712 roots, was
printed at Isny 1541, 8vo and 4to, a