Avraham Rozenshteyn was born in
Minsk, in what was then the
Russian Empire, on 25 December 1906. He attended the
cheder run by his father, who later sent him to public school and
yeshiva. Rosenstein managed to avoid the British restrictions on Jewish immigration to
Mandatory Palestine and settled there in 1925, where he changed his name to Even-Shoshan, a translation of Rosenstein, and initially worked as a laborer. He studied at the College for Hebrew Teachers (now the
David Yellin College of Education) in Jerusalem and the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He worked as a teacher in Jerusalem until 1967. In 1946–58, Even-Shoshan compiled
HaMilon HeHadash (
The New Dictionary of the Hebrew Language), which since 2003 has become known as the
Even-Shoshan Dictionary. The completed dictionary consisted of 24,698 main entries and about 70,000 words, and is still in print. It includes synonyms in Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, and Ugaritic. He was also the author of the
Even-Shoshan concordance and co-author of the Bialik concordance. Even-Shoshan died in the
Hadassah Medical Center in
Jerusalem in 1984. He was buried in the
Har HaMenuchot. == Awards ==