Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>]

Dear Isaac,

I find that with the used of each of these lexicons/dictionaries cover most of
the same ground and yet also have their own uniqueness in there glosses. These
are not the only ones that I use (including grammars. I also used the 
following
lexicons:

1) Terry A. Armstrong, Douglas I. Busby and Cyril F. Carr, *A Reader's
Hebrew-English Lexicon of the Old Testament,* 3 Volumes, Grand Rapids: 
Zondervan
Corporation. Vol. I, 1980; Vol. II, 1982; Vol. III, 1986.

2) Neal D. Williams, *A Lexicon for the Poetical Books,* Irving, TX: Williams 
&
Watrous Publishing Company, 1977.

Both of the above use BDB, Gerhard Lisowsky's *Konkordanz zum Hebraischen 
Alten
Testament,* and Soloman Mandelkern's *Veteris Testamenti Concordantiae 
Hebraicae
Atque Chakdaicae.* Williams also used Koehler and Baumgartner's *Lexicon 
Veteris
Testamenti Libros.*

Again, all of these will say the same thing in most cases, but sometimes they
will differ. I will always weigh the evidence provided by all of them and then
make a decision. Adding information obtained from periodicals, when available,
is also very helpful.

The use of TWOT is well worth the cost. Furthermore, two of the contributers,
Drs. Herman Austel and Richard D. Patterson (both Ph.D.'s, Semitics, UCLA) 
were
translators of the NASB, co-authors for I & II Kings (Dr. Patterson on Joel) 
in
The Expositors Bible Commentary series and were my professors of Hebrew and 
Old
Testament at Northwest Baptist Seminary in Tacoma, WA. at the same time that
Martin A. Abegg and I both attended.

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: "b-hebrew Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] resource material was chalal-perforate/pierce?


> Isaac:
>
> Maybe we use all these dictionaries because they are more accurate
> than our speculations.
>
> There are several words that have a chet preceding a lamedh, among
> them XWL meaning to turn about vigorously, as in dancing, XYL to be
> forceful, XLH to be soft (XLH the bread is probably connected with
> softness, as in soft bread), XLL to pierce, bore a hole, as in making
> a flute, XLL to make common, as in bringing into production, also used
> to say that something is unimportant, even thought little of in
> contrast to something that is set apart, special QD$ (I found this
> interesting as the New Testament makes the exact same use of koinos
> and hagios).
>
> That there are greatly differing meanings to similar sounding words
> unpredictable as to their meanings is common in languages, and
> Biblical Hebrew is no exception.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
> On 9/7/07, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
> > Bryant,
> >
> > It is not clear to me why we should use all these dictionaries, where
> > we can use better, and to our greater advantage, our own brain.
> > I looked up TWOT and saw that he suggests that XALAH [of the famous
> > rhyme: I baked a little xalah, I baked it by myself, I put it in the
> > oven, I put it on the shelf,...] is some kind of bagel or pretzel
> > since its name implies that it is 'pierced'.
> >
> > Isaac Fried, Boston University
> >
> > On Sep 7, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Bryant J. Williams III wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Michael,
> > >
> > > Besides, BDB, I also use the following:
> > >
> > > 1)    William Holladay, *A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of
> > > the Old
> > > Testament,* Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,
> > > 1971.
> > > Originally published by E.J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands.
> > >
> > > 2)    R. Laird Harris, Editor; Gleason L. Archer, Bruce K. Waltke,
> > > Associate
> > > Editors, *Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament,* 2 Volumes,
> > > Chicago: Moody
> > > Press, 1980.
> > >
> > > In fact, regarding the issue of "chalal" versus "kalal," I would
> > > refer to TWOT,
> > > Vol. 1, page 288, "Halal."
> > >
> > > Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
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