A convenient reference for writers, students, and businesspeople;anyone who needs the right word at the right time. Poetry, prose, and a nine-letter pizza toping . . . When you're looking for a word, pull it out of one of our Pockets.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Handy for travel:
This review is for 4 Hebrew lexicons in common use: Brown-Driver-Briggs, Koehler-Baumgartner, Holladay, and Langenscheidt. The sizeable Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon is a development of Gesenius' historic work, and a long-time standard in English speaking countries. However, it has become dated, and now is used mostly because Hendrickson put out a cheaply constructed version keyed to Strong's concordance. Oxford's Clarendon Press edition is superior if you are required to get BDB. In addition, organizing... more info
Unique:
This is useful in that it is a pocket sized dictionary of Biblical Hebrew, whereas most of that sort are large lexicons.
OK for portable reference:
It's small, it's not too hard on the eyes and it covers the vocabulary. Of course, you must know enough of the language to be able to find an entry. Not appropriate for exegesis papers, but useful for "quick" reading.
A great Hebrew tool, but..........:
This is a great Hebrew tool, but cannot stand on its own for the beginning student. The problem is that it is a Hebrew to English dictionary, which is useful, but it is not an English to Hebrew dictionary.
