A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (Eerdmans Language Resources (ELR)) Hardcover – January 7, 1972

I highly recommend this Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon by William L. Holladay. I am a regular user of it. It is well set-out, and the amount of information in even each entry is amazing. Considering the amount of work, skill and learning that was needed to produce such a Lexicon, we ie the Students of Hebrew, have been handed a Study-Tool that should be snapped-up immediately. And the price tag alone should tell you to buy it!! Thanks to Amazon for making these bargains so available. The serious Student has it all before him- I can lead you to the water, but I can't make you drink!!! A suggestion: what about a companion Lexicon: English to Hebrew Lexicon. This Lexicon is a delight to use.Ignotus.

This is best reference for intermediate to advanced students of Hebrew who are actually interested in learning to read biblical Hebrew. Yes, you could use online tools to hover your mouse over the word you need, but you will not actually learn biblical Hebrew that way. If you are serious about learning Hebrew, you actually need to spend some time struggling through the lexicon and figure out the root of the word on your own. You will not learn to read the text by hovering your mouse over a web page or using a computer program.Holladay falls between the BDB and HALOT. For translation exercises and exams, I start with Holladay. I almost always find what I need. When the passage is particularly difficult or unclear, I'll crack open the BDB, which takes even more time to slog through.Again, using a computer program WILL NOT help you learn Hebrew: it convinces one that he or she is better than they actually are! (I found this out the hard way on an exam!)

For any student of the Hebrew Bible desiring to have an affordable, accurate and handy Hebrew Lexicon, William Holladay's Lexicon is the perfect choice. Holladay includes the conjugations of every Hebrew verb and notes that feature the most update research that has come out of comparative Semitic studies. Amazingly, Holladay fits such features in a user-friendly volume that gives a busy pastor like me the opportunity to do better at exegeting the Hebrew text.

Holladay's a pretty decent lexicon. The transliterations drive me nuts. I didn't go to all the trouble to learn Hebrew to have transliterations getting in the way. It's easier to read the Hebrew than the transliterations. Other than that, it's a handy little lexicon.I have it, but I don't use it cuz I purchased Koehler Baumgartner for use with Accordance. No transliterations there. Even before that, I thought the out-of-date big d*mn book, BDB, was better to use because of the absence of the transliterations.

I teach Biblical Hebrew and have had my students use BDB for several years. I ordered this lexicon for comparison and find that it is much easier for beginners to use because it does not require a knowledge of the root word, which in some cases is hard for beginners to determine. While it is not as in depth as BDB, it is more than acceptable for students to gain insight into the Scriptures with relative ease.

I use HALOT and BDB on my computer software to do the heavy exegetical lifting, but it is nice to have this little one-volume lexicon on the shelf for looking up words when I don't have the software immediately available. Don't get this if you want a lexicon that provides comprehensive (or near comprehensive) citations of the occurrences of a word in the Bible. Holladay just provides a few examples of each category of use. Also, don't get it if you are looking for the work in the cognate languages provided by HALOT. While all the listings are in Hebrew script, some of the (secondary) meanings of words are headed by transliteration, so be sure you know both Hebrew script and the transliteration convention. Other than that, in a day of powerful software tools, it's nice to have this lexicon to do a quick look-up.

most of the words used in the old testament. Good for the beginning hebrew and aramaic student

It was a required text for my hebrew class. Shipping was slow because of Korean import regulations and complications (I live in Seoul, Korea). Amazon's part in the shipping was great.The book is effective in translating. The dust jacket is far from sturdy and rips with ease. The paper is of good quality, highlighters do not bleed through very much. The type is neat and accurate. It is a little difficult to find some variant forms of words, but that may speak more to my skill and familiarity with the book than to it's format.