Qimchi

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Kimhi, Qimchi is the family name of a family of scholars, the earliest known members of which lived at the end of the 11th and in the 12th century. The name was so common that it was used by R. Michael in his "Seder ha-Get‘" as a paradigm word. It is evidently not unconnected with the feminine form "Qimchit" in the Talmudic literature (see Yer. Meg. i. 72a; "Ben Qimchit" and "Simeon b. Qimchit", Yer. Yoma, iii. 47d, v. 42b; "Ishmael b. Qimchit", Tosef., Yoma, p. 189, l. 13 [ed. Zuckermandel]). In a punningway it is connected by Zacuto ("Sefer Yuchasin", p. 225, ed. London) with the verse in Pirqe Abot, "Im en Qemach en Torah", and Joseph b. Todros wittily calls David Qimchi "Ha-Chitti". In a manuscript of the commentary of David Qimchi to the Prophets, dated 1347, in the National Library at Madrid, the name is punctuated "Qamchi" (Steinschneider, "Hebr. Bibl." xi. 133), as also in three manuscripts of the "Miklol" in the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris. This must have been the pronunciation in Arabic-speaking countries (from the Arabic "Qamch"). Steinschneider has called attention to the Arabic name "Al-Qamchi" found in a Bodleian manuscript ("Monatsschrift", xxxiv. 528). The Hebrew pronunciation was "Qimchi" (from "Qemach", "food, bread"), as was perhaps indicated by the fact that Immanuel of Rome rimed it with "Simchi" (see the discussion in the "Athenæum", March 22, 1884; "Hebraica", ii. 116; B. Felsenthal, in the Kohut Memorial Volume, p. 126). The modern Italian form of the name is "Chimichi". In Provence the name "Petit" was added to "Qimchi." From Spain and Provence the family spread into Italy, Turkey, Syria, and England. The genealogy of its remotest members runs as follows: Isaac (c. 1090); Joseph (c. 1125); David (c. 1160); Isaac; Mordecai (c. 1290); Solomon (c. 1300); Joseph; Isaac (c. 1400). The more important of the later members of the family are noted below, in alphabetic order:

  • Abraham Kimhi
  • Benjamin Kimhi
  • Conprado Kimhi
  • David b. Joseph Kimhi(Redaq)
  • Flaminio Kimhi
  • Hayyim Kimhi
  • Isaac Kimhi
  • Isaac b. David Kimhi
  • Isaac b. Joseph Kimhi
  • Isaac b. Mordecai Kimhi
  • Isaiah Solomon Kimhi
  • Israel Kimhi
  • Jacob Kimhi
  • Joseph b. Isaac Kimhi (RIQaM; surnamed Maistre Petit)
  • Joseph b. Saul Kimhi
  • Judah Raphael Kimhi
  • Mordecai b. Isaac Kimhi
  • Moses Kimhi
  • Moses b. Abraham Kimhi
  • Moses b. David Kimhi
  • Moses b. Joseph Kimhi (ReMaQ)
  • Moses b. Nissim Kimhi
  • Nissim Joseph David Kimhi
  • Samuel Kimhi
  • Shabbethai Kimhi
  • Sinai b. Hayyim Kimhi
  • Solomon Kimhi

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