Judah Aryeh ben Zvi Hirsch

Judah Aryeh Loeb ben Zvi Hirsch of Carpentras (; ) was a French Hebraist.

Biography Judah was born in Krotoschin, and lived at Avignon and Carpentras. He was the author of Ohole Yehudah, a Hebrew dictionary, in which special attention is paid to proper names and their etymology, and Geza' Yehudah, a short concordance. In his introduction to the former work he mentions two other works of his: Pene Aryeh and Ḥeleḳ Yehudah, both on the Pentateuch. The grammatical essay which preceded the Ḥeleḳ Yehudah was published with a German translation under the title Yesod leshon ha-ḳodesh. A Hebrew manuscript in the Bodleian Library contains a grammatical poem, beginning, and a commentary by Judah, to which are added the paradigms of the verbs, with a Hebrew-German translation, and some grammatical rules.

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