Abraham Even-Shoshan

Abraham Even-Shoshan

Abraham Even-Shoshan ( _he. אברהם אבן-שושן; 1906, Minsk - 1984, Jerusalem) was a Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, recipient of the Israel Prize (1978) and the Bialik Prize (1981).

Even-Shoshan was born as Avraham Rosenstein in Minsk, Belarus. "Even-Shoshan" is a Hebrew translation of his surname.

Even-Shoshan created the New Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (1946-1958), which was refined and re-issued in 2004, under the name Even-Shoshan Dictionary. This is currently considered the most accurate and comprehensive dictionary of Modern Hebrew.fact|date=September 2008

He also created the Even-Shoshan concordance and co-created the Bialik concordance.


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