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Modern Hebrew dictionaries for native speakers

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Even-Shoshan Dictionary The Hebrew dictionary by Avraham Even-Shoshan, commonly known as the ''Even-Shoshan Dictionary'', was first published (1948–1952) as " (''milon ḥadash'', ''A New Dictionary''), later (1966–1970) as (''hamilon heḥadash'', ''The New Dictio ...
, compiled by
Avraham Even-Shoshan Avraham Even-Shoshanrussian: Авраа́м Э́вен-Шоша́н, translit=Avraam Even-Shoshan ( né Rozenshteyn;russian: Розенштейн 25 December 1906 – 8 August 1984) was a Belarusian-born Israeli Hebrew linguist and lexicographer ...
, originally published in 1948-1953 as מילון חדש (Hebrew for "New Dictionary"). * , the first modern Hebrew dictionary, compiled by
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda ( he, אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֵּן־יְהוּדָה}; ; born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman, 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922) was a Russian–⁠Jewish linguist, grammarian, and journalist, renowned as the lexicographer of ...
, whose first volumes were published in 1908. * , compiled by two members of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, edited in the
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method, published in 1995, and reprinted in 2007. * * , originally developed by the Israeli Center for Educational Technology, first published in 1997, including both a printed version and an electronic one. Currently maintained by Melingo.


Historical Hebrew dictionaries

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Historical Dictionary Project of the Hebrew Language The Historical Dictionary Project of the Hebrew Language (HDP) (Hebrew: מִפְעַל הַמִּלּוֹן הַהִיסְטוֹרִי) is a long-term research undertaking of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. According to the Academy's website, " ...
, a research project of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.


Translation dictionaries


Historical and scholarly Hebrew translation dictionaries


Prior to the 16th century

* Agron, a 10th century lexicographical reference book by
Saadia Gaon Saʻadiah ben Yosef Gaon ( ar, سعيد بن يوسف الفيومي ''Saʻīd bin Yūsuf al-Fayyūmi''; he, סַעֲדְיָה בֶּן יוֹסֵף אַלְפַיּוּמִי גָּאוֹן ''Saʿăḏyāh ben Yōsēf al-Fayyūmī Gāʾōn''; ...
, including
Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
word translations. * ''Kitāb Jāmiʿ al-Alfāẓ'' ("The Book of Collected Meanings"), a 10th century Hebrew-Aramaic-Arabic dictionary by
David ben Abraham al-Fasi David ben Abraham al-Fasi ( he, דוד בן אברהם אלפאסי) was a medieval Jewish, Moroccan lexicographer and grammarian from Fez, living in the second half of the 10th century (died before 1026 CE), who eventually settled in the Land o ...


16th century

* '' De Rudimentis Hebraicis'', ("The fundamentals of Hebrew"), first published in 1506 by
Johann Reuchlin Johann Reuchlin (; sometimes called Johannes; 29 January 1455 – 30 June 1522) was a German Catholic humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew, whose work also took him to modern-day Austria, Switzerland, and Italy and France. Most of Reuchlin' ...
, on the Hebrew grammar, including a Hebrew-Latin lexicon * ''אוֹצַר לְשׁוֹן הַקֹּדֶשׁ, Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae, sive Lexicon Hebraicum'', ("Treasury of the sacred language, or Hebrew lexicon"), first published in 1529 by Santes Pagnino, a Hebrew Latin dictionary. * , a
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dictionary written by
Elia Levita Elia Levita (13 February 146928 January 1549) ( he, אליהו בן אשר הלוי אשכנזי), also known as Elijah Levita, Elias Levita, Élie Lévita, Elia Levita Ashkenazi, Eliahu Levita, Eliyahu haBahur ("Elijah the Bachelor"), Elye Bok ...
and published by
Paul Fagius Paul Fagius (1504 – 13 November 1549) was a Renaissance scholar of Biblical Hebrew and Protestant reformer. Life Fagius was born at Rheinzabern in 1504. His father was a teacher and council clerk. In 1515 he went to study at the University of ...
in 1542 in Isny


19th century

* ''Hebräisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch über die Schriften des Alten Testaments mit Einschluß der geographischen Nahmen und der chaldäischen Wörter beym Daniel und Esra'' (Hebrew-German Hand Dictionary on the Old Testament Scriptures including Geographical Names and Chaldean Words, with Daniel and
Ezra Ezra (; he, עֶזְרָא, '; fl. 480–440 BCE), also called Ezra the Scribe (, ') and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra, was a Jewish scribe ('' sofer'') and priest (''kohen''). In Greco-Latin Ezra is called Esdras ( grc-gre, Ἔσδρα ...
), by
Wilhelm Gesenius Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (3 February 178623 October 1842) was a German orientalist, lexicographer, Christian Hebraist, Lutheran theologian, Biblical scholar and critic. Biography Gesenius was born at Nordhausen. In 1803 he became ...
, published in 1810/1812 * ''A Hebrew, Latin and English Dictionary; containing all the Hebrew and Chaldee Words used in the Old Testament'', by Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey, published 1815 by Gale and Fenner, Paternoster-Row * ''Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum cum brevi Lexico Rabbinico Philosophico'', a Hebrew and Chaldean lexicon by
Johannes Buxtorf Johannes Buxtorf ( la, Johannes Buxtorfius) (December 25, 1564September 13, 1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis" ...
, published in 1607, reprinted in Glasgow, 1824. * Steinberg O.N. (Father to the soviet composer of classical music Maximilian Osseyevich Steinberg): ''Jewish and Chaldean etymological dictionary to Old Testament books''. T. 1-3. Vilna: Type. L. L. Matza, 1878-1881. (A Biblical hebrew dictionary in the Russian language) Штейнберг О. Н. Еврейский и халдейский этимологический словарь к книгам Ветхого Завета. Т. 1–3. Вильна: тип. Л. Л. Маца, 1878– 1881. * ''Neues Hebräisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch über das Alte Testament mit Einschluß des biblischen Chaldaismus'' ("New Hebrew-German hand dictionary on the Old Testament including Chaldean words"), by Wilhelm Gesenius, originally published in Leipzig in 1815. Also available as a digitized version of the 16th edition, 1915 and 18th edition reprint, from Springer Verlag, Berlin 2008, * Strong's Concordance, a
Bible concordance A Bible concordance is a concordance, or verbal index, to the Bible. A simple form lists Biblical words alphabetically, with indications to enable the inquirer to find the passages of the Bible where the words occur. Concordances may be for the ...
first published in 1890, that indexes every word in the
King James Version The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version, is an Bible translations into English, English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and publis ...
, including the 8674 Biblical Hebrew root words used in the Old Testament, and includes a Hebrew English dictionary.


20th century

* Brown–Driver–Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, first published in 1906. * ''Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti libros'', a scholarly translation dictionary, consisting of "Ludwig Koehler - Dictionary of the Hebrew Old Testament in English and German", and "Walter Baumgartner - A Dictionary of the Aramaic parts of the Old Testament in English and German", published in 1953. * Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, an English-only version, with updates, of the ''Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti libros'', published 1994-2000.


Modern Hebrew translation dictionaries

* ("Arabic-Hebrew Dictionary of Modern Arabic"), compiled by David Ayalon, Pessach Shinar and Moshe Brill, published by the
Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
, 1978 * Babylon, a computer dictionary and translation program. * , an online Hebrew English dictionary by Melingo. * ''New Hebrew-German Dictionary: with grammatical notes and list of abbreviations'', compiled by Wiesen, Moses A., published by Rubin Mass, Jerusalem, in 1936 * The modern
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-Hebrew, Hebrew-Greek dictionary, compiled by Despina Liozidou Shermister, first published in 2018 * The Oxford English Hebrew dictionary, published in 1998 by the Oxford University Press.


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Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...