the son of Isaac and Rebekah, was born in the year of the world 2168, before Jesus Christ 1836. The history of this patriarch is given at large in the book of Genesis. He died in Egypt in the 147th year of his age. Joseph directed that the body should be embalmed, after the manner of the Egyptians; and there was a general mourning for him throughout Egypt for seventy days. After this, Joseph and his brethren, accompanied with the principal men of Egypt, carried him, with the king of Egypt's permission, to the burying-place of his fathers near Hebron, where his wife Leah had been interred. When they were come into the land of Canaan, they mourned for him again for seven days; upon which occasion the place where they stood was called Abel-mifraim, or the mourning of the Egyptians.

(Ben Hajim), a rabbi famous for the collection of the Maforah in 1525; together with the text of the bible, the Chaldaic paraphrase, and Rabbinical commentaries.

(Ben Naphtali), a famous rabbi of the 5th century; he was one of the principal mafores, and bred at the school of Tiberias in Palestine with Ben Aser, another principal maforet. The invention of points in Hebrew to serve for vowels, and of accents to facilitate the reading of that language, are ascribed to these two rabbis; and said to be done in an assembly of the Jews held at Tiberias, A.D. 476.

(Giles), an eminent law-writer, born at Romsey in the county of Southampton, in 1686. He was bred under a considerable attorney; and is principally known for his Law Dictionary in one volume, which has been often printed; a new and improved edition having been lately given by counsellors Ruffhead and Morgan. Mr Jacob also wrote two dramatic pieces; and a Poetical Register, containing the lives and characters of English dramatic poets. The time of his death is not known.

JACOBÆUS (Oliger), a celebrated professor of physic and philosophy at Copenhagen, was born in 1651 at Arhusen in the peninsula of Jutland, where his father was bishop. Christian V. intrusted him with the management of his grand cabinet of curiosities; and Frederic IV. in 1668, made him counsellor of his court of justice. He wrote many medical works, and some excellent poems.