Lexicographer and Hebrew revivalist
Eliezer ben Yehuda
Life
1858–1922
He coined words and promoted Hebrew as a modern household language.
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Eliezer ben Yehuda made his household a laboratory for reviving spoken Hebrew. Ben Yehuda created modern vocabulary and worked on a seventeen-volume dictionary.