sentences:  Ibn Parḥon relates in his preface that when he came to Salerno he found the people there entirely ignorant of the products of Judæo-Spanish literature, being acquainted only with the lexicon of Menahem ibn Saruḳ.He determined, therefore, to compile a lexicon to the Bible in which the substance of that literature should be made accessible in Hebrew.He completed his work on Kislew 1, 4921 (= 1160), and called it "Maḥberet he-'Aruk," combining the title of the dictionary of Menahem with that of Nathan's Talmudic lexicon.