=Abin, Amora=, emigrates from Judæa, =2=, 567.
=Abinadab=, guards the Ark of the Covenant, =1=, 119.
=Abinadab=, son of Saul, death of, =1=, 103.
=Abinerglus= (Abennerig), father-in-law of Izates, =2=, 216.
=Abishag=, wife of David, and Adonijah, =1=, 160.
=Abishai=, brother of Joab, kills Abner, =1=, 111. saves David, =1=, 117. commander in the Ammonite war, =1=, 127. conducts the Idumæan war, =1=, 128-9. against Absalom, =1=, 141, 144. conducts the war against Sheba, =1=, 149.
=Ablaat=, astronomer, friend of Mar-Samuel, =2=, 521.
=Abner=, cousin of Saul, qualities of, =1=, 84-5. frees Israel from the Philistines, =1=, 108. makes Ishbosheth Saul’s successor, =1=, 108. actual founder of the kingdom of the Ten Tribes, =1=, 108. jealous of Joab, =1=, 109. power of, =1=, 109. kills Asahel, =1=, 110. accused of coveting Rizpah, =1=, 110. joins David, =1=, 110-11. murdered, =1=, 111-12.
=Abner of Burgos.= _See_ Alfonso Burgensis.
=Aboab, Immanuel=, defends Rabbinical Judaism, =5=, 55.
=Aboab, Isaac=, rabbi of Toledo, friend of Isaac Abrabanel, =4=, 341. negotiates for the settlement of Spanish exiles in Portugal, =4=, 352, 365. death of, =4=, 366.
=Aboab, Isaac, de Fonseca= (1606-1693), rabbi at Amsterdam, instructs at the Talmud Torah, =4=, 681. member of the first Rabbinical college, =4=, 682. as a preacher, =4=, 682-3. vacillating character of, =4=, 683. goes to Brazil, =4=, 693. on the war in Brazil, =4=, 694. devotee of the Kabbala, =5=, 52. translates Kabbalistic works, =5=, 54, 88. and Spinoza, =5=, 92. Sabbatian, =5=, 139, 160.
=Aboab, Samuel=, rabbi at Venice, and Luzzatto, =5=, 240.
=Aboda Zara=, Mishnic treatise on idolaters, =2=, 477.
=Abodah=, the, Day of Atonement Temple service, poem on, =3=, 114-15.
=Aboget=, alleged poisoner of wells, =4=, 102.
=Abrabanel.= _See_ Dormido; Isaac ben Judah; Isaac II, son of Isaac; Isaac III, son of Judah Leon; Judah Leon; Samuel I; Samuel II.
=Abrabanel family=, the, descended from David, =3=, 43.
=Abradhi=, caliph of the East, vizir of, favors Saadiah, =3=, 200.
=Abraham=, disciple of Meïr of Rothenburg, =4=, 74.
=Abraham=, monk, convert to Judaism, =3=, 21.
=Abraham=, patriarch, acquires Machpelah, =1=, 4. monotheist, =1=, 5. virtues of, =1=, 6. revered by the Israelites, =1=, 6-7. impresses Mahomet, =3=, 71. in the Zohar, =4=, 23.