The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (1906)

Rev. ed. of: A Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1906. ( )

NO OF PAGES: 1185 SUB CAT I: Hebrew SUB CAT II: Reference SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: With an appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic; coded with the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible; Based on the lexicon of William Gesenius, as translated by Edward Robinson, and edited with constant reference to the thesaurus of Gesenius as completed by E. Rodiger, and with authorized us of the German editions of Gesenius' "Handworterbuch uber das Alte Testament".NOTES: Purchased from CBD. SUBTITLE: Coded with Strong's Concordance Numbers

The classic single-volume lexicon of Biblical Hebrew: Despite the the venerable age of the Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB), it is still unsurpassed as the most practical (in a comprehensiveness/affordability sense) for classroom use. Other solutions are either too basic, such as Holladay's Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, or too expensive to for an introductory course such as the two-volume study edition of Brill's Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT).

A potential drawback to the user of this dictionary is that the lexical list by root will cause difficulty for the user unfamiliar with Hebrew grammar. A certain drawback to the work is that considerable discoveries and advances have been made in the area of Comparative Semitic Linguistics since the work's publication, and therefore the etymological lemmata listed under each root may not be entirely accurate anymore, and the scholarly consensus on the pragmatics of certain verb forms may have changed. For serious academic reference on these matters, one should then turn to the HALOT or the new Sheffield 'Dictionary of Classical Hebrew' (in-progress, most recently published volume: 6 'Samekh-Pe'). ( )

Great reference tool. Good alongside Strong's. ( )