''A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament'', more commonly known as ''Brown–Driver–Briggs'' or ''BDB'' (from the name of its three authors) is a standard reference for
Biblical Hebrew and
Biblical Aramaic,
[ first published in 1906. It is organized by (Hebrew) alphabetical order of three letter roots. It was based on the Hebrew-German ]lexicon
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of Wilhelm Gesenius, translated by Edward Robinson. The chief editor was Francis Brown, with the co-operation of Samuel Rolles Driver and Charles Augustus Briggs
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, hence the name Brown–Driver–Briggs. Some modern printings have added the Strong's reference numbers for Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic words.
In 2013, semitists Jo Ann Hackett
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Early life and education
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and John Huehnergard received a National Endowment for the Humanities
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grant to fund creation of a revised and updated electronic version of the BDB; the resulting ''Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon'' will be available through a website (''Semitica Electronica'') or via print-on-demand.
See also
* Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament
* New American Standard Bible. The "Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon" is dubbed "The New American Standard (NAS) Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon" at www.biblestudytools.com.
References
External links
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Concordance and Dictionary
– developed b
ALHATORAH.ORG
utilizing modified versions of: J. Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Cincinnati, 1890); F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1906); and the work of D. Troidl generously made available at openscriptures.org (CC BY 4.0)
Abridged 1994 version with Strong's Code system
via Internet Archive
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Full-page images of the BDB
1939 Reprint edition
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