Though the latter is not the one to which The Hebrew English concordance to the Old Testament with the New International Version refers, some use can be made of it with the help of the Hebrew alphabet. (The Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti libros depicted above predecedes by several decades the updated edition of it translated by Richardson and entitled The Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament ( REF PJ4833.
K62 1958), which offers definitions in English as well as German : 204 of the Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti libros by Koehler and Baumgartner (REF PJ4833.
H6 1971):Īnd to the C (or 3rd) quadrant of p. 68 of Holladay's A concise Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament (REF PJ4833. Thus, you would turn to the D (or 4th) quadrant of p. K65 1998) functions as a handy G/K-based key to the Strong system and the BDB lexicon (above), but also to two other Hebrew lexicons as well: 2070 of The Hebrew English concordance to the Old Testament with the New International Version (REF BS1121. 1129, which gives Strong numbers to the left (in this case 1730), and their corresponding BDB page numbers to the right (in this case, 187b (page 187, column b):įrom there it is a simple matter of turning to page 187, column b, and scanning that margin for the Strong number in question:Ģ. The "Concise Hebrew-English dictionary to the Old Testament" that begins on p. To use this, go first to the "Index of Strong's numbers in BDB" beginning on p. coded with the numbering system from Strong's exhaustive concordance of the Bible, at REF PJ4833. A printing of this keyed to the Strong system is The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English lexicon. The major lexicon of Old Testament Hebrew is the Hebrew and English lexicon of the Old Testament, sometimes called simply "Brown-Driver-Briggs", or BDB, for short ( General Collection and REF PJ4833. While this was the focus of TWOT, not every major entry was able to include all of these features.1. The word "bârâ'" is the 278th word in TWOT, Volume 1.Īccording to the introduction inside the volumes, "The contributors were asked to study their words from the viewpoint of biblical usage, etymological background, comparison with cognate languages, translations in the ancient versions, synonyms, antonyms, and theological significance" (Vol 1, iv). The number refers to the entry number of the word.
Here is the TWOT reference for the word bârâ' : When using the lexicon on the free, online Blue Letter Bible for the Old Testament (), one of the references cited is the TWOT. Volume 1 contains TWOT numbers 1-1268, and Volume 2 contains TWOT numbers 1269-3067. Use this number to locate the entry in either of the two volumes. To effectively use the TWOT, you simply look up the Strong's number in the Index section at the very back of each volume and take note of the corresponding TWOT number beside it. The TWOT uses its own numbering system that is tied to the more commonly available Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Hebrew identification numbers. It gives a short definition to every Old Testament word, but goes theologically in-depth on the words that are considered to be necessary and noteworthy to clarity and contextual understanding of the Old Testament. TWOT is a 2-volume set, dealing with the Hebrew/Aramaic words in the Old Testament that have a theological significance. The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (aka "TWOT") is edited by R.