Kimchi

Kimchi, DAVID, the most eminent Jewish grammarian and exegete, was born about 1160, probably at Narbonne, where he spent the greater part of his life, and died about 1235. His father, Joseph Kimchi, was the author of a number of commentaries and other theological works. His brother Moses wrote similar works and a Hebrew Grammar. His own celebrity, however, far exceeds theirs, and even with competitors like Rashi and Ibn Ezra he has preserved his place as the most popular of Jewish commentators. His Grammar, Michlol, and his Lexicon, Sefer hash-orashim, have to a certain degree been the basis of all subsequent Hebrew grammars and lexicons. His commentaries include almost all the books of the Old Testament. That on the Psalms was edited by Schiller-Szinessy (Camb. 1885).