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Heinrich Gesenius

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842) was a German orientalist, theologian and biblical scholar whose career c...

German 19TH Century Historical Biblical

9.45 Excellent

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Jonah ibn Janah

Jonah ibn Janah was an eleventh-century Spanish Jewish rabbi, physician, and Hebrew linguist who became a leading mediev...

Medieval Grammar Hebrew 11TH Century

9.20 Excellent

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Wilhelm Gesenius

Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1830) was a German scholar renowned for his meticulous work in biblical lexicography. His *Hebrew...

German 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

9.12 Excellent

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David Kimhi

David Kimhi, also known by the acronym Radak, was a prominent medieval French-Provençal rabbi, grammarian, and biblical...

Medieval Grammar Hebrew 12TH 13TH Century

8.98 Great

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Samuel Driver

Samuel Rolles Driver (1851–1914) was a prominent English theologian and Hebraist who spent his academic career at the Un...

British Biblical Hebrew 19TH 20TH Century

8.95 Great

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James Murray

James Murray dedicated his life to documenting the history of the English language. As chief editor of the Oxford Englis...

Historical English Past Oed

8.94 Great

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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (c. 754 – c. 815) was an 8th-century scholar from Basra. He is primarily known for his *...

Classical Early Arabic Past

8.78 Great

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Francis Brown

Francis Brown was a nineteenth-century American lexicographer specializing in Semitic languages. His most significant co...

American 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.76 Great

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Elias Levita

Elias Levita was a 16th-century German-Jewish scholar recognized for his profound expertise in the Hebrew language and p...

Historical Grammar Hebrew 15TH 16TH Century

8.73 Great

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Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm was a prominent German lexicographer and philologist. He is best known for his extensive work on the Deutsch...

German Historical Past Grimm

8.72 Great

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Samuel Rolles Driver

Samuel Rolles Driver (1835-1914) was a British scholar specializing in biblical Hebrew and Hebrew lexicography. He signi...

19TH Century British Biblical Hebrew

8.68 Great

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Charles Briggs

Charles Briggs was a nineteenth-century American scholar specializing in biblical Hebrew lexicography. His significant c...

American 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.68 Great

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Noah Webster

Noah Webster was a prominent 19th-century American lexicographer. He developed standardized spellings and definitions fo...

American English Past Webster

8.67 Great

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Menahem ben Saruq

Menahem ben Saruq was a 10th-century Spanish-Jewish philologist and poet who served in the court of Hasdai ibn Shaprut i...

Medieval Hebrew 10TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.67 Great

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Mahmud al-Kashgari

Mahmud al-Kashgari was a 11th-century lexicographer who created the *Diwan Lughat al-Turk*. This seminal work, produced...

Classical Arabic Past Turkic

8.61 Great

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Xu Shen

Xu Shen was a prominent scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. He is best known for his meticulous work compiling...

Ancient Chinese Past Characters

8.61 Great

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Ibn Manzur

Ibn Manzur (d. 1294) was a prominent Islamic scholar and lexicographer renowned for his monumental work, Lisan al-Arab....

Classical Arabic Past Lisan

8.57 Great

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Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić significantly shaped modern Serbian. He created the *Srpski rječnik* in 1818, a foundational dic...

General National Past Serbian

8.50 Great

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Avraham Even-Shoshan

Avraham Even-Shoshan was an Israeli lexicographer, educator, and writer best known for compiling a major dictionary of m...

Modern General Past Hebrew

7.86 Good

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Nathan ben Jehiel

Nathan ben Jehiel was a Jewish scholar and lexicographer active in medieval Rome. He compiled the Arukh, a dictionary of...

Medieval Past Hebrew Aramaic

7.53 Good