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In this major reference tool, Jessie Payne Smith has abridged the great two-volume work, 'Thesaurus Syriacus, ' by her late father. But her task was not to simply edit down the earlier, massive tomes. She also provided English translations for each entry and additional notations... Read Full Overview

This standard lexicon of Syriac has long been the choice of students of Syriac, both for its comprehensiveness and also because of its handy size. It originated as an abridgement of Payne Smith's Thesaurus Syriacus, a substantically larger work that also tends to be... Read Full Overview

Excerpt from A Compendious Syriac Dictionary: Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D