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a Jewish writer who flourished in 1480, is the author of a lexicon on the synonyms of the Old Test., entitled àåäì îòã , The Tabernacle of the Congregation in allusion to Exo_33:7, “because therein are congregated expressions which differ in sound, but are like in essence” ( åòã ìîìéï äùåéí áäåøàä àçú åùôú îúçìôú îöã äéåúå ëéú ). The synonyms are divided into groups, the alphabetical order of which is determined by its most important word. Each group commences with the formula äîìä àùø äåðçä ìäéøåú , i.e. the word which is put down is to teach, being made, up from the abbreviation of the title of the work, viz. äàäì , and is illustrated by quotations from the Old Test. and the corresponding passages from the Targum, as well as by quotations from Saadia Gaon's Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, the works of Dunash ibn-Librat, Hai Gaon, Ibn-Ganaclh, Ibn-Giath, Nathan ben-Jechiel, Ibin- Balaam, Nachmanides, Ibn-Sarck, etc . The lexicon was published at Venice in 1548, and is now very rare. See Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 461; De Rossi, Dizionario Storico, p. 323 (Germ. transl.); Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Bebr. in Bibl. Bodl. p. 2391; Kitto, Cyclop. s.v.; Geiger, in Zeitschrift der deutsch. morgenl. Gesellsch. (Leips. 1863), 17:321; Wolf, Bibl. ebr. 1, 1037, etc. (B. P.)