Abraham Even-Shoshan

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Abraham Even-Shoshan (1906, Minsk - 1984, Jerusalem) was a Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, recipient of the Israel Prize (1978) and the Bialik Prize (1981).

Even-Shoshan was born as Avraham Rosenstein in Minsk, Belarus. Even-Shoshan is a Hebrew translation of his surname.

Even-Shoshan created the New Dictionary of the Hebrew Language (1946-1958), which was refined and re-issued in 2004, under the name Even-Shoshan Dictionary. This is currently considered the most accurate and comprehensive dictionary of Modern Hebrew.

He also created the Even-Shoshan concordance and co-created the Bialik concordance.

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