DAVID Ic.IMHI (c. 116o-1235), also known as Redaq, eclipsed the fame both of his father and his brother. His magnum opus is the Sefer Miklol, "Book of Completeness," which covers the grammar (first printed in Constantinople, 1532-4) and the lexi con, Sefer Hashorashim, "Book of Roots" (first printed in Italy before 1480). In the grammar he combined the paradigmatic method of his brother Moses with the procedure of the older scholars who devoted attention to details. In his dictionary, again, he recast the lexicological materials independently, and enriched lexicography itself, especially by his numerous etymological ex planations. Under the title Et Sofer, "Pen of the Writer" (Lyk, 1864), David composed a sort of grammatical compendium as a guide to the correct punctuation of the Biblical manuscripts ; it consists mainly of extracts from the Miklol. His Biblical commen taries include those on Chronicles, on the Psalms, on the prophets and on Genesis. His annotations on the Psalms are especially interesting for the polemical excursuses directed against the Christian interpretation; his commentary on Genesis (ed. A.
Giinsburg, Pressburg, 1842) explains Biblical narratives as visions. The popularity of his Biblical exegesis is demonstrated by the fact that the first printed texts of the Hebrew Bible were accom panied by his commentary.
His commentaries have been reprinted, many of them in Latin translations. A new edition of that on the Psalms was begun by Schiller-Szinessy (First Book of Psalms, Cambridge, 1883).
Abr. Geiger wrote of the three 15.imbis in the Hebrew periodical Ozar Nehmad (vol. ii., 1857=A. Geiger, Gesammelte Schriften, v. 1-47). See further the Jewish Encyclopaedia.
KIN, a collective word for persons related by blood, as de scended from a common ancestor. In law, the term "next of kin" is applied to the person or persons who, as being in the nearest degree of blood relationship to a person dying intestate, share according to degree in his personal estate. (See INTESTACY, IN HERITANCE, SUCCESSION.)