Chabib, Moses Ben

Chabib, Moses ben a Jewish writer, was a native of Lisbon, in the 16th century. In the persecution against the Jews, he had to leave the country. He is the author of מרפא לשון on The First Rudiments of Hebrew Grnamnar (Venice, 1546): — דרכי נעם on New-Hebrews letrics (written at Bitonto della Puglia in 1486, and published together with the first work). Both were edited, with additions, by W. Heidenheim (Rodelheim, 1806). He also wrote a commentary on Penini's Bechinath Olam (Ferrara,1552),etc. See First. Bibl. Jud. 1, 153; Steinschneider, Bibliogr. Handbuch, p. 34; De Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), p. 70 sq.; Delitzsch, Zur Geschichte der Jid. Poesie, p. 4, 67, 127, 158. (B. P.)