Ben-David
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Ben-David is a Jewish patronymic
surname
. In Hebrew it means "son of David". It is one of the most common surnames in Israel
. It may refer to the following people:
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...
surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
. In Hebrew it means "son of David". It is one of the most common surnames in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
. It may refer to the following people:
- Abraham ben DavidAbraham ben DavidRabbeinu Abraham ben David was a Provençal rabbi, a great commentator on the Talmud, Sefer Halachot of Rabbi Yitzhak Alfasi and Mishne Torah of Maimonides, and is regarded as a father of Kabbalah and one of the key and important links in the chain of Jewish mystics...
(RABaD, 12th century CE), a Provençal rabbi and a Talmudic scholar - Abraham ben David CaslariAbraham ben David CaslariAbraham ben David Caslari was a Spanish-Jewish physician. He lived at Besalu, Catalonia, in the first half of the fourteenth century. Caslari was considered one of the most skillful physicians of his time...
(14th century CE), a Catalan-Jewish physician - Alon Ben DavidAlon Ben DavidAlon Ben-David is an Israeli television and print journalist, currently senior defense correspondent for Israel's Channel 10 and Middle East correspondent for Aviation Week. He has been covering Israeli military affairs for more than 25 years....
, an Israeli television and print journalist - Anan ben DavidAnan ben DavidAnan Ben David is widely considered to be a major founder of the Karaite movement of Judaism. His followers were called Ananites and, like modern Karaites, do not believe the Rabbinic Jewish oral law to be divinely inspired...
(8th century CE), a major founder of the Karaite movement of Judaism - Baruch ben David Te'omim-FränkelBaruch ben David Te'omim-FränkelBaruch ben David Te'omim-Fränkel, Boruch Frankel Thumim was a rabbi, Talmudist at Vishnitsa, Austrian Galicia, and at Leipnik, Moravia, during the 1st half of the 19th centuryHe is the grandson of Aryeh Löb ben Joshua Feiwel Te'omim....
(1760 – 1828), a rabbi and Talmudist in Galicia and Moravia - Jacob ben David ben YomtobJacob ben David ben YomtobJacob ben David ben Yom Tov was a Catalan Jewish astronomer and astrologer. He lived, probably at Perpignan, in southern France in the fourteenth century....
(14th century CE), a Catalan Jewish astronomer - Judah ben David HayyujJudah ben David HayyujJudah ben David Hayyuj was a Jewish linguist. He is regarded as the father of scientific grammar of Hebrew language. He was born in Fez, Morocco, about 945...
(10th century CE), a Spanish-Jewish grammarian - Mordechai ben DavidMordechai ben DavidMordechai Werdyger , professionally known as Mordechai Ben David or MBD for short, is an American Hasidic Jewish singer and songwriter popular in the Orthodox Jewish community. He has been referred to as the 'King of Jewish music'. He has produced many popular Jewish albums over the past 40 years...
(b. 1951, real name Mordechai Werdyger), a Jewish-American musician - Naftali BendavidNaftali BendavidNaftali Bendavid is the Congressional reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He was previously the deputy Washington bureau chief, White House correspondent and Justice Department correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, as well as a reporter for the Miami Herald and Legal Times...
, an American journalist - Solomon ben DavidSolomon ben DavidSolomon ben David may refer to:*Solomon, Solomon ben David, son of King David who succeeded his father as King of Israel and founded the line of the Kings of Judah, 10th century BCE...
(disambiguation) - Yehuda Lavi Ben-David, a Jewish scholar
- Zadok Ben-DavidZadok Ben-DavidZadok Ben-David is an Israeli artist working in London. Born in Beihan, Yemen, his family immigrated to Israel when he was an infant. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design from 1971 to 1973. He continued his studies at University of Reading and the Central Saint Martins College of...
, a Yemen born Israeli artist and sculptor
See also
- ibn Daud (Abraham ibn DaudAbraham ibn DaudAbraham ibn Daud was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Toledo, Spain about 1110; died, according to common report, a martyr about 1180. He is sometimes known by the abbreviation Rabad I or Ravad I. His mother belonged to a family famed for its learning...
) - Bendemann
- DavidDavidDavid was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible and, according to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, an ancestor of Jesus Christ through both Saint Joseph and Mary...
- David (name)David (name)David is a common male given name and surname. The name "David" is derived from the ancient times of Mesopotamia and used as the Biblical Hebrew name דָּוִד , meaning "Beloved". "Dudi" is a common nickname for David in Hebrew, in the same way Dave and Davy are in English.The Arabic and Assyrian...
- Davidson (name)
- Davis (surname)Davis (surname)Davis is a patronymic surname originating in Wales, that means 'son of David'. It is the 52nd most common surname in the United Kingdom. According to the 1990 United States Census survey, 'Davis' was the 6th most frequently reported surname, accounting for 0.48% of the population, preceding Miller...
- Davison (surname)
- Ben DunkelmanBen DunkelmanBenjamin Dunkelman was a Canadian Jewish officer who served in the Canadian Army in World War II and the Israel Defense Forces in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. In Israel, he was called Benjamin Ben-David....