The Concise Dictionary of Classical Hebrew?

Amy Leung
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edited December 2024 in English Forum

I wonder if Logos could consider offering the Concise Dictionary of Classical Hebrew?  This title has been recently available made for a competitive program but I have no interest in building another library.  [:(]

I have the hardcopy of the CDCH and there are two things that I really like about it.  

1. statistics: the number of occurrences of the word in the Hebrew OT, Ben Sira, the Dead Sea scrolls and inscriptions.

2. "new words": 1200 words found in the Hebrew corpus other than the Hebrew OT, and 2100 words or new meaning of words proposed by scholars 

Concise as it is, it is a very handy index for subsequent looking up of the unabridged Dictionary of Classical Hebrew if one has access to it (of course I would mind if Logos would offer the unabridged Dictionary of Classical Hebrew too [;)]). 

Here is an example of how we've been using it as an index to aid exegesis.  In our recent study of Proverbs we were wondering about the meaning of "way of the path" in Pr 12:28, and so we looked up the entry in the CDCH, and found a "new meaning" proposed by scholars for the word נתיב, which brought us to look up the entry in the unabridged dictionary.  This new proposed meaning ("ruins" as opposed to "path") would not only fit in the Proverbs verse nicely but also balance the two colons and maintain an antithetical parallelism between them, so it has been able to offer some new light in our study.


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