Edmund Rive, An Heptaglottology (1618)

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Date
1618
Lexicographer
Edmund Reeve (alternate name for Edmund Rive ) Note: 12/10/2005
Book title
An Heptaglottologie, That is, A Treatise Concerning Seven Langvages, To wit, The Hebrew, Greeke, Chaldean, Latine, Arabicke, Syriacke, Talmudicorabbinicall, Wherein The excellencie and the necessity of the knowledge of them is plainely and breifely declared
Publication place
London
Printer
William Jones
Publisher
Mathew Lownes
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
  • Arabic
  • Chaldee
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Latin
  • Syriac
Summary
A discussion of seven languages
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Also there are many Syriacke words in the new Testament some interpreted in Greeke, as Marke 15,34. Eloi, Eloi, Lamasabacthani: And some not interpreted, as 1. Cor. 16. 22. Maranatha, which although by the knowledge of the Chaldean they may bee in somewise vnderstood, yet being seene in their owne original Character, they are more liuely and literally perceiued and interpreted. (p. 35)
Alston
III.ii.766
STC
21060