R. Salomon ben Abraham ibn Parhon, (12th century) was a lexicographer. Born in Qal'a, Spain, he was a student of R. Judah Halevi and R. Abraham ibn Ezra. R. Parhon emigrated to Italy, where in 1160 at Salerno he completed Mahberet he-Arukh, his only extant work. Ten years after Parhon's dictionary appeared R. Judah ibn Tibbon claimed it was merely a plagiarism of Ibn Janah’s lexicon. However, this claim is unjust because in addition to the necessity of taking into consideration the rather liberal medieval attitude toward utilizing the works of others, Mahberet he-Arukh contains original material in its own right. For example, material pertaining to the development of religious ritual, which is of considerable historical interest, and original explanations of biblical passages are found in the work. The introduction to the dictionary comprises a compendium of biblical Hebrew grammar and terminates with a short excursus on medieval Hebrew prosody. Its appendix (appearing immediately after the introduction in S. G. Stern's 1844 edition) is entitled "About biblical matters, as to which one has to dispel one's doubts," and deals with problems of style and syntax following Ibn Janah's Kitab al-luma' (Sefer ha-Rikmah, 1964). The major importance of Mahberet he-Arukh, however, was that, being written in Hebrew, it transferred to Christian countries the advances in Hebrew philology made under the influence of Arabic linguists in Spain. In his introduction R. Parhon asserts this to be one of his aims since he found that in Italy only the Mahberet of R. Menahem ibn Saruq was known. Accordingly, he followed the example of his teacher, Abraham ibn Ezra, the most important popularizer of Spanish scholarship in Christian lands. The Mahberet he-Arukh became an extremely popular work, not least because of the fluency, lucidity, and purity of Parhon's Hebrew style, a style befitting a pupil of Abraham ibn Ezra.

שער-נוסף: מחברת הערוך. Salomonis ben Abrahami Parchon aragonensis Lexicon Hebraicum ... nunc primum e cod. mss. ... Salomo Gottlieb Stern edidit subiectisque illustravit Praemissa historia grammatici apud judaeos studii auctore ven ... S. L. Rapoport

מכתבים [הסכמות]: ;W. Gesenius, Halle, 8 Juni 1841 Berlin, 5 Januar 1842 ,[Leopold] Zunz ר' שמואל דוד לוצאטו, פאדובה, י אדר-א תר"ג ר' יחיאל מיכל זקס, פראג, ערב ראש-חודש אלול תר"א.