The Enhanced
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew and English Lexicon

a HEBREW AND ENGLISH LEXICON of the OLD TESTAMENT

WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE BIBLICAL ARAMAIC

Based on the lexicon of

WILLIAM GESENIUS

as translated by

EDWARD ROBINSON

late professor in the union theological seminary, new york

Edited with constant reference to the thesaurus of Gesenius as completed by E. Rödiger, and with authorized use of the German editions of Gesenius‘s Handwörterbuch über das Alte Testament

FRANCIS BROWN, D.D., D.Litt.
Davenport Professor of Hebrew and the Cognate Languages in the Union Theological Seminary

with the co-operation of

S. R. DRIVER, D.D., Litt.D.
Regius Professor of Hebrew, and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford

and

CHARLES A. BRIGGS, D.D., D.Litt.
Edward Robinson Professor of Biblical Theology in the Union Theological Seminary

Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, with an appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic, based on the lexicon of William Gesenius as translated by Edward Robinson, by Francis Brown, with the cooperation of S. R. Driver and Charles A. Briggs.

Based on the 1906 edition originally published by Clarendon Press: Oxford.

References to Strong’s Concordance, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, and Goodrich-Kohlenberger numbers have been added by Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Publisher’s Preface to the Enhanced Edition

The edition here presented of Francis Brown, R. Driver, and Charles Briggs’ Hebrew and English Lexicon is based on an Oxford edition as re-printed and corrected in 1951 by Francis Brown’s son. This Logos electronic edition qualifies as “enhanced” for the following reasons:

First, to each appropriate headword we have added references to Strong’s Concordance, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, and/or Goodrich-Kohlenberger numbers. Each BDB entry can therefore be compared instantly with the equivalent entries in any Logos Library System book that supports these numbering schemes.

Second, the “Addenda et Corrigenda” listed at the end of the 1951 edition have been integrated into the text. Some additional minor corrections have been undertaken, though only when the printed edition was obviously in error.

Third, we have changed the layout of the book for maximum on-screen readability. We have set the book so that derivative forms are indented slightly so that the reader can clearly see which entries are roots and which are derivatives. Further, we have increased the line spacing throughout the book to ease the burden of distinguishing one line from another.

Oak Harbor, Washington
December, 2000

Preface to the Oxford Edition

The need of a new Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament has been so long felt that no elaborate explanation of the appearance of the present work seems called for. Wilhelm Gesenius, the father of modern Hebrew Lexicography, died in 1842. His Lexicon Manuale Hebraicum et Chaldaicum in V.T. Libros, representing a much riper stage of his lexicographical work than ...