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1. Elhanan Ben Samuel (Sanwel) Ashkenazi: Rabbi of Schottland, near Danzig; born in 1713; died Sept. At the age of eighteen he became rabbi of Fordon, Prussia, and in 1752 first rabbi of Schottland. He wrote various Talmudic commentaries and "ḥilluḳim," or discussions, as well as ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
2. Archevolti, Samuel Ben Elhanan Isaac: Italian grammarian, and poet of the sixteenth century. Many of his piyyuṭim were embodied in the Italian liturgy, notably his "Song on Circumcision. He was an excellent Talmudist, and, when quite young, reedited or rather supplied with extensive textual references ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]

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1. Elhanan ("God Is Gracious"): , the son of Jaareoregim, the Bethlehemite, who in a battle with the Philistines at Gob killed Goliath, the Gittite., he was the son of Jair, and killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath. The original traditions had it that the death ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [75%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
2. Elhanan: ELHANAN el-ha'-nan ('elchanan, "whom God gave"): (1) A great warrior in the army of David who slew a Philistine giant. There is a discrepancy between 2 Samuel 21:19 and 1 Chronicles 20:5. In the former passage ... [75%] 1915-01-01
3. Elhanan Ben Shemariah: Egyptian Talmudist; flourished in the tenth and eleventh centuries. He was the son of Shemariah b. Elhanan of Kairwan, who left Egypt some time after his son Elhanan, who remained behind, had reached maturity. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [71%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
4. Shemariah Ben Elhanan: Head of the yeshibah of Cairo, Egypt, about the end of the tenth century. relates that Ibn Rumaḥis (or Ibn Demahin), an Arab admiral, had captured four scholars who were voyaging from Bari to Sebaste to collect money for the ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [71%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
5. Ḥushiel Ben Elhanan: President of the bet ha-midrash at Kairwan toward the end of the tenth century. According to Abraham ibn Daud, he was one of the four scholars who were captured by Ibn Rumaḥis, an Arab admiral, while voyaging from Bari ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [71%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
6. Elhanan Ben Issachar Katz: Religious writer in Hebrew and Judæo-German; lived in the second half of the seventeenth century and at the beginning of the eighteenth in Prossnitz, Moravia, where he was shammash, cantor, and sofer. He was the author of the following ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [61%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
7. Heilbronn, Joseph Ben Elhanan: German Hebrew scholar; lived at Posen in the sixteenth century. mentions a Joseph Heilbronn who died at Padua in 1622, but who can not be identified with Joseph ben Elhanan. Heilbronn wrote: "Em ha-Yeled," an elementary Hebrew grammar for ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [61%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
8. Heilbronn, Jacob Ben Elhanan: German rabbi and mathematician; flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After occupying various rabbinates he settled at Padua. He wrote: "Seder Meliḥah," a treatise in Judæo-German on the law of salting meat, at the end of which there ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [61%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
9. Samuel Bent: Samuel Bent (July 19, 1778 – August 16, 1846) was a member of the Council of Fifty and a leader in the early years of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Bent was born in Barre ... [57%] 2024-09-09 [1778 births] [1846 deaths]...
10. Meïr Ben Samuel (Ram): French tosafist; born about 1060 in Ramerupt; died after 1135. Meïr received his education in the Talmudical schools of Lorraine, his principal teachers being Isaac ben Asher ha-Levi and Eleazar ben Isaac of Mayence (Pardes, ed., with whom he ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
11. Abigdor Ben Samuel: A rabbi in Pruzhany, Rushony, Wilkowyszky, and Selva (Lithuania and Poland), from 1719 to 1768. Toward the close of his life he removed to Wilna, where his son Samuel was rabbi. Responsa of his are found in the collection of ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
12. Samuel Ben Abbahu: He engaged in a ritual controversy with R. Aḥai in regard to the use of the Circassian goat as food. Samuel was disposed to permit it to be eaten, but R. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
13. Samuel Ben Naṭronai: German tosafist of the second half of the twelfth century. He was the pupil and son-in-law of R. He is often cited by his father-in-law in his work "Eben ha-'Ezer" (§§ 27, 28, etc. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
14. Samuel Ben Jonah: He is perhaps identical with Samuel ben Inijah or Inia (). Samuel ben Jonah once gave an opinion concerning Samuel ben Naḥman's system of calculating the advent of the new moon (Pesiḳ. Samuel ben Inia transmitted traditions of Aḥa (Yer. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
15. Samuel Ben Abigdor: Russian rabbi; born about 1720; died 1793 at Wilna, where his father, who had been rabbi in Pruzhani, Rushany, and Wilkowyszky, spent his last years (see Abigdor ben Samuel). His father-in-law, Judah ben Eliezer, surnamed "Yesod," was probably ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
16. Aaron Ben Samuel: A simple farmer of Hergershausen (Hessen), who was the first person in Germany to attempt, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, to bring about the use of the vernacular in lieu of the Hebrew in the daily prayers. His ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
17. Samuel Ben Moses: Russian cabalist; lived at Swislotz, government of Grodno, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was the author of "Shem Shemu'el," containing cabalistic interpretations of the Pentateuch and giving cabalistic reasons for the precepts therein. In the preface the ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
18. Abraham Ben Samuel: Physician in Barcelona about 1030; contemporary of Abraham ben Ḥiyyah. He was highly esteemed at the court of Count Berenger for his knowledge of medical science. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [56%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]