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A trio of eminent Hebrew Bible scholars-Francis Brown, R. Driver, and Charles Briggs-spent over twenty years researching, writing, and preparing The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon. Since it first appeared, BDB has been considered the finest and most comprehensive Hebrew lexicon available to the English-speaking student. Based upon the classic work of Wilhelm Gesenius, the "father of modern Hebrew lexicography," BDB gives not only dictionary definitions for each word, but relates each word to its Hebrew Bible usage and categorizes its nuances of meaning. BDB's exhaustive coverage of Hebrew Bible, Hebrew words, as well as its unparalleled usage of cognate languages and the wealth of background sources consulted and quoted, render BDB and invaluable resource for all students of the Bible.… (more)
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A potential drawback to the user of this dictionary is that the lexical list by root will cause difficulty for the user unfamiliar with Hebrew grammar. A certain drawback to the work is that considerable discoveries and advances have been made in the area of Comparative Semitic Linguistics since the work's publication, and therefore the etymological lemmata listed under each root may not be entirely accurate anymore, and the scholarly consensus on the pragmatics of certain verb forms may have changed. For serious academic reference on these matters, one should then turn to the HALOT or the new Sheffield 'Dictionary of Classical Hebrew' (in-progress, most recently published volume: 6 'Samekh-Pe').