[ABP] The Very Best Online Resources for Students of Biblical Hebrew

Because Zionists slice and dice scripture to justify their crimes, the availability the resources described in the following blog entry can be quite helpful for pro-Palestine, anti-Israel, anti-Zionism, and pro-America activism.

The Very Best Online Resources for Students of Biblical Hebrew

Five resources are particularly useful.

(1) The best online edition of the Hebrew Bible is on offer from the J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research of Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. It is a faithful reproduction of Codex Leningradensis, although it corrects miniscule errors of the naqdan: compare ריח in Song of Songs 7:9 in BHQ vs. the Westminster electronic edition and BHL. Its usefulness is enhanced because one can strip the Masoretic text of accents and vowels. It is important to be able to read biblical Hebrew without vowels. If you can read Hebrew without vowels, that’s because you know the language. If you can’t, that’s because you don’t. An intermediate to advanced student of ancient Hebrew can learn to read the biblical text without vowels within a short amount of time and with a minimum of error.

(2) How so? Starting with unpointed text, do your best to read it properly. Then check your work against audio recordings of the text of the Hebrew Bible. The best set I know of contains the reading of Avraham Shmuelof and is divided into chapters courtesy of Gary Martin here. Practice makes perfect.

(3) The standard reference grammar of biblical Hebrew, Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley, is available online, searchable in wikisource. Everything in the volume, including all the paradigms, is cut-and-pastable. Let’s say you are wondering if the grammar says anything about תְּלָאָה‎, a noun whose pattern you wish to investigate. Or perhaps you wish to see each time the grammar references a particular verse, say Ps 119:14. Stick Kautzsch-Cowley and the item of interest into the Google search engine, and voilà, a list is yours. Check it out.

(4) Dictionaries. Stick a Hebrew word into this search engine, milon.morfix, and see what comes up. For best results, insert the “dictionary” form. Otherwise, you might not get anything appropriate back. The nice thing about this search engine is that lexemes pop up vocalized. (5) This search engine, courtesy of Babylon.com, is helpful because of its thesaurus and “image” functions. The problem with it is that not all biblical Hebrew vocabulary is covered. Milon.morfix is more complete based on a spot check.

So far as I know, a searchable online edition of Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) is not available. UPDATE: I take that back – for the scoop on a sort of searchable online edition, courtesy of David Reimer, go here.

But then, those who haven’t already need to break down and purchase a suite of electronic resources from Logos Bible Software or another provider. The research advantages are considerable.

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