David ben Abraham al-Fasi

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David ben Abraham al-Fasi was a Jewish, Moroccan writer from Fez, living in the second half of the 10th century. He is the author of Kitab Jami al-Alfaz (Arabic: book containing a collection of words), a Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary.^[1] It is the first dictionary of biblical Hebrew.

References

↑ Solomon Skoss, The Hebrew-Arabic Dictionary of the Bible known as Kitab Jami al-Alfaz (Agron) of David ben Abraham Al-Fasi, the Karaite (New Haven: Yale UP 1936-1945), pp. XXXV-ff.

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