ABRAHAM, a learned Maronite, whom the presidant Le Jai employed in the edition of his Polyglott Bible. Gabriel Sionita, his countryman, drew him to Paris, in order to make him his fellow labourer in publishing that Bible. They fell out; Gabriel complained to the parliament, and cruelly defamed his associate; their quarrel made a great noise. The congregation de propaganda fide allocated him, 1636, with those whom they employed in making an Arabic translation of the Scriptures. They recalled him from Paris, and he laboured in that translation at Rome in the year 1652. While he was professor of the Oriental languages at Rome, he was pitched upon by the great duke Ferdinand II. to translate from Arabic into Latin, the 5th, 6th, and 7th books of Apollonius's Conics; in which he was assisted by John Alphonsus Borelli, who added commentaries to them. He died at Rome in 1644.