R. Samuel b. Abraham Laniado (d. 1605), Syrian rabbi, biblical commentator, and preacher, known from the title of most of his works as Ba'al ha-Kelim. R. Laniado was a grandson of R. Samuel Laniado who settled in Adrianople after the expulsion from Spain. He was born in Aleppo, where he became head of the community (c. 1601) after the death of R. Samuel b. Joseph ha-Kohen. He assembled homiletical and exegetical comments on the Bible, and original comments of his own. The following of his books have been published: Keli Hemdah (Venice, 1595), on the Pentateuch; Keli Paz (ibid., 1657), on Isaiah; Teru'at Melekh (Jerusalem, 1931), on Psalms. Many of his works have remained in manuscript, including his commentaries on the latter prophets, with the exception of Hosea and Joel (Gaster, manuscripts, London 62, 1–3); Keli Golah, on Lamentations; and Mevakkesh ha-Shem, a commentary on the Pentateuch which he mentions in Keli Hemdah. He also wrote a commentary entitled Sekhel Tov on the Midrash Shoher Tov which was in the possession of R. Hayyim Joseph David Azulai.

בשער: ותהי ראשית מלאכתו בחדש אלול ה'שס"ג פ[רשת] הוא חייך וארך ימיך [נצבים-וילך, יז-כב אלול]. בספרי יהושע, שופטים ושמואל נוספו בהרבה מקומות בגליון ביאורי מלים. בשני הספרים הראשונים רוב הביאורים בעברית, ובספר שמואל רובם בלעז ספרדי-יהודי.