The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew

by Gary Pratico, Miles V. Van Pelt, Gary D. Pratico

Book Overview

A guide for mastering basic Hebrew vocabulary This guide helps seminary and Christian college students learn Hebrew vocabulary. A special feature of the guide is that it groups thevocabulary in three... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310250722
• ISBN13: 9780310250722
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

An easy to read book, great tool!

This is an amazing tool, easy to use and very concise. This is a great tool for Biblical Hebrew student. It gives you the right definition and it is divided in difference sections. I am really glad that I bought it!

Excellent Starting Hebrew Dictionary

Unlike other Hebrew dictionaries such as BDB(Brown Driver Briggs or Koehler and Baumgartner, which are arranged according to word roots(BDB) or according to how the words appear in the Bible(Koehler), this one has several separate lists, each one arranged differently, such as by frequency, common root, identical looking words that have different meanings, by part of speech, and others. It also has an index of Hebrew Words in the back to help locate Hebrew words faster. Serves as a good go-between when trying to locate things in other Hebrew reference books. very practical!

Hebrew Student's Albatross

What a great resource. This great tool is a Hebrew Bible word list in various forms. It is the book that gives me fits because there's always a vocabulary quiz coming out of it every day for class.

Well done, but reading is still the best way to build vocabulary

This is a great book and a welcome addition for my library of Biblical Hebrew study aids. It will be beneficial to students (and teachers) of Biblical Hebrew at almost any level of proficiency. It's great for research and reference purposes as well as vocabulary building. As far as building my vocabulary, I think it also helps and is certainly useful, but I personally learn the best through reading. I can read a word in a passage once and remember it because of the context, while I will struggle to remember a word even after running numerous times through my word list. But obviously everyone learns differently and for me reading happens to be the best way to pick up new words and make them stick. As for the book, the authors provide plenty of lists and ways to organize words to allow for multiple focused approaches to building up Biblical Hebrew vocabulary -- for example a frequency based word list for words appearing at least 10 times, a word list arranged by a common root, lists of nouns, lists of verbs (all verbs alphabetically and arranged by a verb type and stem...), statistical distributions of occurrences, etc.... Although I do wish it had even more list, such as a list of all hapax words for each section of the Tanakh for example, I do realize that it is beyond the scope of this book as intended by the authors. I highly recommend this book.