Zemah ben Paltoi

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:''For the [[Gaon (Hebrew)|Gaon]] of Sura, see: [[Zemah ben Hayyim]].''
'''Zemah ben Paltoi''', also spelt '''Tzemach ben Poltoi''', '''Zemaḥ Gaon''', ([[Hebrew]]: '''צמח גאון בר מר רב פולטוי''') (died 890 [[Common Era|CE]])<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2). An error in the computation of the Gaon's death befell the copyist of ''Sefer HaKabbalah'', where his date of death was erroneously put at 4633 ''[[anno mundi]]'' (corresponding with 873 [[Common Era|CE]]). The same error prompted R. [[Zacuto]] to emend his copy of [[Ravad]]'s ''Sefer HaKabbalah''.</ref> officiated in the ''Geonate'' of Babylonia from 872 CE, a post which he held for about 19 years. Zemah ben Paltoi is most noted for his compilation of the first Talmudic dictionary, the ''Arukh'', a work listing some 300 [[Aramaic]] terms, as well as a list of names and places recorded in the [[Babylonian Talmud]]. His work became the model on which two later works were based, one compiled under the same name in 1101 CE, by R. [[Nathan ben Jehiel]] of [[Rome]],<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and another, a [[Judeo-Arabic]] lexicon, compiled by [[David ben Abraham al-Fasi]] nearly one-hundred years earlier, and which work elucidates difficult words in the [[Hebrew Bible]].

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