TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clines,David J.A.
TI  - The dictionary of classical Hebrew
U1  - 492.4321/DIC 
PY  - 1995/// - 2012>
CY  - Sheffield, UK
PB  - Sheffield Academic Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - O.T
KW  - language, style
KW  - Hebrew language
KW  - Dictionaries
KW  - English
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; v, 2. Beth - Waw;  v. 4. Yodh - Lamedh
N2  - "The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew": incorporates all Hebrew from the earliest times to c.200 CE; includes all the data from Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus), the Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts, and the Hebrew inscriptions down to 200 CE; lists and analyses all occurrences of every Hebrew word (with the exception of a few very common words); gives an English translation of every Hebrew word and phrase cited in the dictionary; provides statistics for the number of occurrences of each word in each of the four corpora of Hebrew; concentrates on the common words rather than the rare ones; indexes all the nouns to their verbal "root" and all the verbs to their "derived" nouns; is systematically based on modern linguistic principles; contains a word-frequency index and a list of all the sources for the Hebrew language, including all the manuscripts from Qumran; provides a comprehensive bibliography to scholarly studies on individual Hebrew words and an English-Hebrew index
ER  -