Moses Kimhi

Moses Kimchi (* in Narbonne, † 1190 ibid.), also known by the acronym Remak, was a Jewish grammarian and exegete of the 12th century.

He was the son of Rabbi Joseph Kimchi and the brother of David Kimchi. Both in its grammatical and in his exegetical work was Moses Kimchi under the influence of his father and Abraham ibn Ezra of. In his work on Hebrew grammar, it dealt mainly with the morphology of the verb. In his book Mahalach schwile ha - da'at ( "Access to the path of knowledge" ), which was printed in 1508 in Pesaro, Moses introduced the paradigmatic use of the root pkd ( פקד ). His classification of the seven conjugation kal, nif'al, pi'el, pu'al, hif'il, hofal and hitpa'el has been used by later grammarians. His grammar was provided by Elijah Levita, with Annotations and appeared in the Latin translation of Sebastian Münster under the title Liber viarum linguae sacrae 1520 in Paris. In the translation of Sebastian Münster, this work has for the Christian Hebrew scholar of the 16th century to one of the most widely used Hebrew grammars and has been reprinted several times.

As an exegete Moses Kimchi commented mainly those books of the Bible, which had been generally neglected, and wrote notes to the book of Proverbs, the book of Ezra, Nehemiah, and the Book of Job.