Simon Bondi (; 1774 – 20 December 1816) was a German ''

maskil The ''Haskalah'', often termed Jewish Enlightenment ( he, השכלה; literally, "wisdom", "erudition" or "education"), was an intellectual movement among the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, with a certain influence on those in Western Eur ...

'' and lexicographer of the

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. He wrote, together with his brother , the ''Or Ester'' ('Light of Esther'), a

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dictionary of the

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words occurring in the Talmud, ''

targum A targum ( arc, תרגום 'interpretation, translation, version') was an originally spoken translation of the Hebrew Bible (also called the ''Tanakh'') that a professional translator ( ''mǝturgǝmān'') would give in the common language of the ...

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midrash ''Midrash'' (;"midrash"
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im'' (Dessau, 1812). They also wrote a similar work on the Greek words, which was never printed. The periodical ''Jedidja'' (i. 117–125) contains a biographical obituary of Simon by his brother Mordecai. Bondi was related to the author and the

court factor In the early modern period, a court Jew, or court factor (german: Hofjude, Hoffaktor; yi, היף איד, Hoyf Id, קאַורט פאַקטאַר, ''Kourt Faktor''), was a Jewish banker who handled the finances of, or lent money to, European, main ...

and banker Simon Isaac Bondi. His sister Sophie married into the

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