Arepol, Samuel

Arepol, Samuel a Jewish writer of Safed, in Upper Galilee, who lived during the 16th' century, is the author of אמרת אלה, or expositions on the Pentateuch (Venice):- לב הכם, a commentary on Ecclesiastes (Constantinople, 1591) :- מזמור לתודה, or a commentary on the alphabetic Psalms and the Songs of Degrees (Venice, 1576) :- שר שלום, a commentary on the Canticles (Safed, 1579).See Furst, Bibl. Jud. i,. 50; De' :Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), p. 46; Etheridge,' Introd. to Hebr. Literature, p. 415. (B. P.)