SATANOW, ISAAC HA-LEVI. This remark able philosopher, poet, Talmudist, lexicographer, and commentator, was bom Elul 29, 1732, at Satanow or Satanov, in Russian Poland, whence he obtained his name. He came to Berlin in 1772, where, at the age of forty, lae began to issue those celebrated works for which he had prepared himself in his native place, and which immortalised his name in connection with Hebrew literature and Biblical exegesis. His works in these departments are as follow :— I. A short Hebrew Grammar, entitled The yoyjul Lips 0-Nri 'Mt') 1B17), in allusion to Ps. lxiii. 5, which he published in Ber lin, 1773, as the first instalment of a large work, embracing the whole critical apparatus of the Biblical Hebrew ; 2. A Hebrew lexicon (-It',D b4t.'11Vil), in two parts. The first part, which gives all the meanings of the Hebrew words, is entitled the Lip ?I Truth 0-Int,t ntv), in allusion to Prov. xii. 19, which is a continuation of the former work ; and the second part, which is a treatise on the synonyms and homonyms of the Hebrew language, and is the third part of his cri tical apparatus, Berlin 1787, zd ed., Prague 1804.;
3. A Hebrew commentary on and German trans lation of Job, Berlin 1799. Besides these, Satanow has also written several works of gnomes and apothegms in imitation of the Psalms and Proverbs, which. are most masterly, and which will always be charming reading books for the student of the Hebrew lang;uage ; as well as grammatical notes on all the difficult passages of the O. T., which have not as yet been published. He died in 1802. Comp. Delitzsch, Zur Geschichte der jiidischen p. 115, ff., Leipzig 1836 ; Fiirst, Biblio theca Yudaica, iii. 251, etc. ; Jost, Geschichte a'es 9zidenthums und seiner Secten, vol. iii. p. 398, etc., Leipzig 1859.—C. D. G.