Very helpful for a beginner
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For someone beginning their study of Biblical Hebrew, this is an excellent dictionary which I have found has included all words I have looked up in my study of the Tanakh. Admittedly, for the more advanced user, it doesn't list words under roots, as mentioned by other reviews but in starting translating the Tanakh, it is very helpful.
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Basic alphabetic dictionary
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This classic pocket dictionary of the Hebrew Old Testament has been of great value to generations of students. But it has serious shortcomings.The dictionary is an alphabetic dictionary, so that maqom (place) comes under rather than under its root letters of . This is good for beginners and for words that one can't quite work out the root of. It is less good for the more experienced student (in my opinion) who will find a root-ordered dictionary more useful in determining the range of meanings implied by a word. The serious shortcoming I found when translating the Song of Songs recently is that it does not contain all the words of that book - poor in a dictionary that claims to be full. It doesn't contain any Biblical Aramaic either, but few starting students will be worried about that. My advice: use it, but learn to use Brown Driver and Briggs as fast as possible.
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biblical not modern
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this dictionary has been incredibly useful in my study of torah, especially for verbs as it lists them under their three-letter root, (ie the kal form) then lists their occurences in other conjugations. not for the speaker of modern hebrew though!
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