SHEMAIAH B. SIMEON ẒEBI (called also Segal):
Scholar of the seventeenth century, of whose life no other details are known than that he was the author of "Maẓref la-Ḥokmah" (Amsterdam, 1765), a list of the 613 commandments, each being described in eight words beginning with the initials or , which are probably an abbreviation of "Morenu Shemaiah Levi Yiḥye" (Amsterdam, 1765).
Bibliography:
- Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 364;
- Löwy, Catalogue of Hebraica and Judaica in the Library of the Corporation of the City of London, p. 143;
- Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 696.