«Commentator and grammarian; elder brother and teacher of David Kimhi. He presumably lived together with his father and his brother in Narbonne, and must have died about 1190. The works of his which have been preserved are: commentaries on Proverbs, Ezra, and Nehemiah, printed in the rabbinic Bibles as the work of Abraham ibn Ezra; a commentary on Job, published by Schwarz in his 'Tikwat Enosh' (Berlin, 1868); 'Sekel Tob,' [Sefer sekhel tov: sefer dikduk, come recita una recente ristampa israeliana: Makor, 1970] a grammatical treatise, published by Castelli in 'R. E. J.' xxviii. 212, xxix. 100; and 'Mahalak Shebile ha-Da‘at,' the first concise methodical text-book of Hebrew grammar. His terminology deviates in some essential points from that of his father, a phenomenon probably due to the influence of Ibn Ezra. As paradigm for the verb appears here for the first time the verb 'pakad'; also the following order of the conjugations: 'kal,' ‘nif‘al,’ ‘pi‘el,’ ‘pu‘al,’ ‘hif‘il,’ ‘hof‘al,’ ‘po‘el,’ ‘hitpa‘el.’ Both these innovations influenced the later text-books on Hebrew grammar. Kimhi’s ‘Mahalak’ became of importance in the first half of the sixteenth, century, when it formed the shortest and most useful text-book for the study of Hebrew by non-Jews. It was edited many times, and was translated into Latin by Sebastian Münster. Elijah Levita wrote annotations to it. Besides the works enumerated above, some liturgical poems of Kimhi’s have been preserved. Mention is made of his ‘Sefer Tahboshet,’ probably a work on anomalous grammatical forms, and of ‘Ta‘anug Nefesh’, a work on ethics» (sezione Moses b. Joseph Kimchi [ReMaK] della voce Kimhi’s – curata da Richard Gottheil, Caspar Levias, Joseph Jacobs e S. Levy – della Jewish Encyclopedia, http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=217&letter=K&search=kimchi#700).