Rating: Summary: HEBREW AND ENGLISH LEXICON Review: bible hebrew israel judaism and so on
Rating: Summary: A MUST HAVE lexicon for the student of the Jewish Bible Review: Every student of Tanakh (the Jewish Bible) must have this lexicon on their desk (the bookshelf is too far away). Like other concordances, the BDB (as it is commonly known) lists all words from the Torah with it's grammatical makeup and where it can be found in context.It is coded with Strong's concordance numbers. You don't have to be a Bible scholar to appreciate this resource.
Rating: Summary: A MUST HAVE lexicon for the student of the Jewish Bible Review: Every student of Tanakh (the Jewish Bible) must have this lexicon on their desk (the bookshelf is too far away). Like other concordances, the BDB (as it is commonly known) lists all words from the Torah with it's grammatical makeup and where it can be found in context. It is coded with Strong's concordance numbers. You don't have to be a Bible scholar to appreciate this resource.
Rating: Summary: I am confused. Review: I can't follow the plot of this book at all.
Rating: Summary: An Excellent Quality Text Review: I've found it difficult to find a good quality Hebrew and English Lexicon that doesn't require previous knowledge of Hebrew. This user friendly lexicon makes it easy to look up any biblical Hebrew word and get the meaning behind the word. When I first picked this book up I was intimidated because it was full of Hebrew letters and looked more advanced than it really was. This lexicon can be used by novices like me who don't know Hebrew, but can be useful to those who do know it too. This book uses Strong's numbers so it maximizes what Strong's can do. I am glad that I purchased this lexicon. It has served me very well in my study of the Hebrew language and how it is used in the Old Testament. This book can be useful to any bible student or anybody who studies the Old Testament.
Rating: Summary: I'm Not Sure That It Even Needs A Review Review: If you pulled up this title you probably have some interest in studying Bibilical Hebrew. If you plan on buying only one reference tool for those studies, this should be it. The contextual references and translations (although somewhat dated) are extensive and detailed. The The lexicography is the standard used or referenced by all of the other works in the field. The historical information is extremely useful if you plan on doing comparative work or focused eymologies. This is the single masterwork reference for Biblical Hebrew; and, if you are a seminary student, you will probably have to buy it anyway.
Rating: Summary: I'm Not Sure That It Even Needs A Review Review: If you pulled up this title you probably have some interest in studying Bibilical Hebrew. If you plan on buying only one reference tool for those studies, this should be it. The contextual references and translations (although somewhat dated) are extensive and detailed. The The lexicography is the standard used or referenced by all of the other works in the field. The historical information is extremely useful if you plan on doing comparative work or focused eymologies. This is the single masterwork reference for Biblical Hebrew; and, if you are a seminary student, you will probably have to buy it anyway.
Rating: Summary: A Classic and Great Value for Money Review: The Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) Hebrew and English Lexicon is a very special dictionary for Biblical Hebrew (and there's a little section at the end for Biblical Aramaic). This is how it works, or at least how I use it. When there is a (Hebrew) word in the Tanakh you don't know or you're not clear about, you page through to it in the BDB. The BDB tells you what type of word it is, whether it's a proper name, noun, verb, etc; it may give you the root in cognate languages such as Akkadian, Arabic, Ethiopic, etc.; and it gives you the various meanings of the word in some of the contexts it is used (with sources and biblical references; it often gives you all the references for the word so that you can use it as a sort-of concordance). The book was first published in 1906 so it is a classic. It seems that there are more modern lexicons available. If I'm not mistaken (and I stand to be corrected), one modern version I considered seemed very expensive. But the BDB is great value for money. It has about 1200 pages, (mine) is hard-cover (and the cover is nice-looking). It is detailed and clear, and I find it very easy to use. It is also coded with Strong's Concordance Numbers (which I don't use). It's a pity that the great scholars that gave us this Lexicon devoted so much of their keen minds to the unfortunate documentary hypothesis of higher criticism, whose J's, E's, D's, and P's show their ugly faces now in this book, albeit rarely; fortunately, they also gave us BDB, and it is no surprise that it has come to be an essential book for the study of the Tanakh for so many.
Rating: Summary: A classic made easier to use... Review: The classic BDB has been improved in this revision of the most complete 1906 edition, making it by far the most useful Hebrew lexicon available to the English-speaking student. This edition is coded to Strong's, thus allowing even those who do not know Hebrew ready access to this valuable tool. Numerous corrections have been made to the original and a new, larger format makes referencing even easier.
Rating: Summary: excellent lexicon, includes heb, aramaic, copt, syr, and eth Review: This book is excellent. The binding is pretty rigid, somewhat hard to hold. Print is legible, references are easy to look up.
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