Product Description

Here is the most complete concordance showing the relationships of Hebrew words to the NIV. It is also a companion volume to The Greek-English Concordance to the New Testament.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #532449 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 2208 pages

Review
The Hebrew-English Concordance to the Old Testament is an exhaustive index to the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 4th edition, and the Hebrew text underlying the New International Version of the Bible. It replaces the venerable Englishman’s Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George Wigram, published a century-and-a-half ago. FEATURES: ? Lists all occurrences of a given Hebrew word (even when there is no direct English equivalent) in Hebrew alphabetical order ? Show the interelationship between the English and Hebrew texts, including redundant cognates and repeated Hebrew words, as well as multiple-word translations ? Uses the Goodrick/Kohlenberger numbering system (with cross-reference to Strong’s numbers), allowing for accurate identification of Hebrew words and use with The NIV Exhaustive Concordance ? Keyed to Brown, Driver, and Briggs’ Hebrew and English Lexicon, Koehler and Baumgartner’s Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, and Holladay’s Concise Hebrew and Aramic Lexico -- Publisher

Language Notes
Text: English, Hebrew

From the Publisher
Pastors, scholars, and Bible students will welcome The Hebrew-English Concordance to the Old Testament. A companion volume to The Greek-English Concordance to the New Testament, this is the most complete concordance available showing the relationships of Hebrew words to the New International Version. Providing an exhaustive index to the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensis, this exceptional volume offers these advantages: lists all occurrences of a given Hebrew word (even when there is no direct English equivalent); arranged in Hebrew alphabetical order; includes Goodrick/Kohlenberger numbers cross-referenced to Strong's numbers; identifies Hebrew verbal stems; shows interrelationships between Hebrew and English texts; and contains a concise Hebrew-English dictionary.

Customer Reviews

Excellent study resource
This reference book (HECOT) is an excellent resource for studying the range of meanings of words in the Torah (five books). For those who read Hebrew well and are accustomed to translations published by and for Jews and use in synagogues, some caution -- at least alertness -- is advised because HECOT is based on the NIV, whose translations of words sometimes vary widely from those in the aforementioned translations (e.g. the old a new Jewish Publication Society editions, or the brand new translation published by UC Berkeley Professor Robert Alter). However, because HECOT is organized alphabetically by Hebrew words, one can always easily refer to the Hebrew text, and from there to both Jewish and non-Jewish translations such as the NIV. A good second concordance to use in tandem with this one is the Exhaustive NIV Concordance (Regency Reference Edition), also the so-called BDB lexicon of Biblical Hebrew.

Serious scholarship for the serious Bible scholar
An essential tool for the Biblical reader who has some knowledge of Hebrew, but not enough for the all-Hebrew Even-Shoshan Old Testament concordance. As an example of its usefulness, the seven Hebrew words translated "praise" in the King James version can be easily traced individually, and understood thoroughly. The frequency of appearance is clearly marked, in all of its forms, making HEC tremendously valuable as Strong's requires the scholar to do a lot of counting over various forms of the word. Again, an example shows that _hll_ or _halal_ appears 89 times as praise, or praised, or praises, etc. Each of these forms would have to be counted individually in Strong's. The same holds true for the other words for praise, namely, tehilla, yadah, zamar, shabach, todah, and barak.

A previous reviewer has mentioned disdain for the name of God. This is simply not the case. The tretragrammaton, YHWH, has been transmitted over centuries as the LORD because the name of God is SO REVERED. This is a convention of the KJV, RSV, NIV, and any other version of the Bible this reviewer has ever seen.

A very helpful index based on the English of the New International Version of the Bible is included. The citations of verses within the concordance is based on the NIV - users of other translations only need to turn to the passages in their own Bibles to get the exact English word with which they will be most familiar.

The only limitation this reviewer found to Kohlenberger's fine work is that his numbers are not keyed to Strong's.

All in all, this is an essential tool I am pleased to have at my disposal.

Very good.
I enjoyed this very much. It shows you exactly how many times the word appears in the NIV and KJV and how it looks in the original Hebrew/Aramaic. Exhaustive doesn't even begin to describe this book. The only problem with this book is the blatent disregard for the Divine Name, Yahweh, which is just translated as "the LORD." Nevertheless, it is an important part of any Bible reader's library.

I originally thought this was an interlinear, so don't make my mistake.