Avraham Even-Shoshan[a] (né Rozenshteyn;[b] 25 December 1906 – 8 August 1984) was a Belarusian-born Israeli Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, compiler of the Even-Shoshan dictionary, one of the foremost dictionaries of the Hebrew language.

Avraham Rozenshteyn was born in Minsk, in what was then the Russian Empire, on 25 December 1906.

He attended the cheder run by his father, who later sent him to public school and yeshiva.

[1] Rosenstein managed to avoid the British restrictions on Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine and settled there in 1925, where he changed his name to Even-Shoshan, a translation of Rosenstein, and initially worked as a laborer.

The completed dictionary consisted of 24,698 main entries and about 70,000 words, and is still in print.