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The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, Volume IX: English–Hebrew Index; Word Frequency Table is unavailable, but you can change that!

No serious study of the Hebrew text of the Bible, or indeed any other ancient Hebrew text, can properly be done without reference to DCH. Indeed, the first eight volumes would have been enough. But the English–Hebrew Index provides us with an important additional lexical tool: for example, the seven words listed for ‘truth’, eight for ‘law’, twelve for ‘save’ and the like will help us to identify...

with be and cause, e.g. be complete, and cause to shine, do not however normally have an entry for their first word. For most entries, a single English word corresponds to a single Hebrew word, but in many cases there are multiple Hebrew words under a single English term. On the first page of the Index, for example, abandon is shown to translate eight different Hebrew words, and abhor seven. When there are two or more Hebrew words spelled the same, the homonym number (I, II, etc.) is always given;
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