(d. C.1190)
French grammarian and exegete, son of Joseph Kimhi. He was active in Narbonne, Provence. His Mahalakh Shevile ha-Daat was the first printed Hebrew grammar (1489); trans-lated into Latin, it was used by Christian scholars during the period of the Reformation. He was also the author of commentaries on Proverbs, Ezra and Nehemiah as well as liturgical poems.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.