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Ben-Yehuda's original intention was not to write a dictionary like the ones we know today but to categorize words by groups: the value 'tree' would contain various names of trees, the value kitchen would contain various names of kitchen utensils and so on. the first value Ben-Yehuda wrote was "stone" which was published in the newspaper ...
Ben-Yehuda Dictionary, the first modern Hebrew dictionary, compiled by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, whose first volumes were published in 1908. The Present Tense Dictionary [ he ] , compiled by two members of the Academy of the Hebrew Language , edited in the present tense method, published in 1995, and reprinted in 2007.
Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda [a] (born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman; [b] 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) [1] was a Russian–Jewish linguist, lexicographer, and journalist.He is renowned as the lexicographer of the first Hebrew dictionary and also as the editor of Jerusalem-based HaZvi, one of the first Hebrew newspapers published in the Land of Israel.
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922) (אליעזר בן יהודה) is often regarded as the "reviver of the Hebrew language" ("מחיה השפה העברית"): [8] he was the first to raise the concept of reviving Hebrew, to publish articles in newspapers on the topic, and he initiated the project known as the Ben-Yehuda Dictionary. [15]
Of the Hebrew dictionary project begun by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (Dictionary of the Ancient and Modern Hebrew Language, Ben-Yehuda Dictionary), volumes 10-16 as well as the prolegomenon volume (המבוא הגדול) "were edited, updated, and completed" by Tur-Sinai, with the assistance of Dov Jarden, Meir Medan, and others. [6]
Reuben Alcalay ראובן אלקלעי (also called Reuven; 1907 in Jerusalem – 1976 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli lexicographer [1] and author of the most comprehensive [citation needed] English-Hebrew-English dictionary, which expanded the dictionaries of Ben-Yehuda (Ben-Yehuda Dictionary), Avraham Even-Shoshan (Even-Shoshan Dictionary), Judah Even Shemuel (Kaufmann), Meir Medan, Harry ...
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The results of Ben-Yehuda's lexicographical work were published in a dictionary (The Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew, Ben-Yehuda Dictionary). The seeds of Ben-Yehuda's work fell on fertile ground, and by the beginning of the 20th century, Hebrew was well on its way to becoming the main language of the Jewish population of both ...