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a Jewish writer, was a native of Satanow, in Russian Poland, where he was born in the year 1732. In 1772 he came to Berlin, where he began to issue those works for which he had prepared himself in his native place, and which have secured him a lasting memorial in Hebrew literature and Biblical exegesis. His works are, a short Hebrew grammar, entitled ס 8 שפתי רננות , The Joyful Lips (Berl. 1773): שפת אמת, a Hebrew dictionary in the manner of Kimchi's: ס השרשים (ibid. 1787; Prague, 1804): אחדי דברים; on the synonyms and homonyms of the Hebrew language (Berl. 1787; Prague, 1804): — אחת שפה, a Hebrew dictionary, also called ס 8השרשים (Berl. 1787): — A Hebrew commentary on and German translation of Job (ibid. 1799). Besides these, Satanow has also written several works of gnomes and apothegms in imitation of the Psalms and Proverbs, as well as grammatical notes on all the difficult passages of the Old Test. which have not as yet been published. Satanow died in 1802. See Fü rst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 251 sq.; Delitzsch, Zur Geschichte d. jü dische Poesie, p. 115 sq.; Jost, Gesch. d. Judenth. u. s. Secten, 3, 398, etc.; Kitto, Cyclop. s.v.; Etheridge, Introd. to Hebrew Lit. p. 395; Grä tz, Gesch. d. Juden, 11, 132 sq.; Steinschneider, Bibliograph. Handb. p. 124; Catalogus Libr. Hebr. in Biblioth. Bodl. p. 2502. (B.P.)